Sitka Rocky Gutierrez in August 2023

88.7%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In August 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 186 domestic departures from Sitka Rocky Gutierrez (SIT). 88.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.0% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so SIT departures were 12.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SIT that month were on time 79.6% of the time (186 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 68%, late-arriving aircraft 26% and national aviation system 6%.

On time 86.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.0%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from SIT in August 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Aug 2023	Year earlier	SIT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Aug 2023
Departed on time	88.7%	—	81.6%	76.7%
Arrived on time	86.0%	—	79.8%	76.9%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	2.6%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.2 min	—	11.3 min	17.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	6	—	4	20,100
Scheduled departures	186	—	1,333	602,987

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AS Alaska Airlines	155	83%	89.0%	1.5 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	31	17%	71.0%	37.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SIT–SEA	Sitka to Seattle	93	78.5%	16.3 min	0.0%
SIT–JNU	Sitka to Juneau	62	91.9%	3.2 min	0.0%
SIT–KTN	Sitka to Ketchikan	31	96.8%	-10.0 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Aug 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	67.6%	36.7%	1,796
Late-arriving aircraft	26.1%	42.2%	693
National Aviation System	6.3%	15.7%	167
Extreme weather	0.0%	5.1%	0
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

2,656 delay minutes on 26 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left SIT on time in August 2023?

88.7% of 186 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 76.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for SIT · methodology · corrections.