Sitka Rocky Gutierrez in May 2024

87.9%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 124 domestic departures from Sitka Rocky Gutierrez (SIT). 87.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 88.7% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so SIT departures were 14.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SIT that month were on time 76.8% of the time (125 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 50%, late-arriving aircraft 39% and national aviation system 11%.

On time 88.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 10.5%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.8%

Every scheduled departure from SIT in May 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

May 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	SIT, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	87.9%	—	81.6%	73.4%
Arrived on time	88.7%	—	79.8%	72.3%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	2.6%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	8.4 min	—	11.3 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	4	—	4	20,325
Scheduled departures	124	—	1,333	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AS Alaska Airlines	124	100%	88.7%	-4.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SIT–JNU	Sitka to Juneau	62	88.7%	-3.5 min	0.0%
SIT–KTN	Sitka to Ketchikan	31	90.3%	-10.7 min	0.0%
SIT–SEA	Sitka to Seattle	31	87.1%	1.0 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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	50.2%	29.8%	319
Late-arriving aircraft	38.5%	43.0%	245
National Aviation System	11.3%	20.1%	72
Extreme weather	0.0%	7.0%	0
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

636 delay minutes on 13 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 May 2024?

87.9% of 124 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 88.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 2023 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 May 2024; 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.