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Airport month · November 2023

St Louis Lambert International in November 2023

84.9%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 November 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 5,245 domestic departures from St Louis Lambert International (STL). 84.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.1% reached their destination on time; 0.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 86.0% of flights departed on time and 86.2% arrived on time, so STL departures were 1.1 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at STL that month were on time 86.4% of the time (5,244 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 50%, air carrier 40% and national aviation system 9%.

Every scheduled departure from STL in November 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureNov 2023Year earlierSTL, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Nov 2023
Departed on time84.9%—74.1%86.0%
Arrived on time87.1%—76.8%86.2%
Cancelled0.1%—1.3%0.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)10.2 min—17.6 min9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day175—17418,793
Scheduled departures5,245—63,318563,777

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines3,36364%86.6%-0.7 min0.1%
AA American Airlines55010%84.7%16.4 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines4689%95.1%-9.1 min0.0%
UA United Airlines2084%84.6%6.8 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline1954%96.9%-13.7 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air1082%89.8%-10.3 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air1012%82.2%2.7 min1.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines741%85.1%26.7 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines581%81.0%-0.5 min1.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines561%87.5%1.9 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines341%88.2%2.7 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines301%46.7%36.6 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
STL–DENSt. Louis to Denver35589.0%-1.2 min0.0%
STL–LGASt. Louis to New York34891.1%-5.1 min0.0%
STL–ATLSt. Louis to Atlanta31693.0%-5.7 min0.0%
STL–MCOSt. Louis to Orlando20979.9%18.3 min0.0%
STL–DCASt. Louis to Washington19187.4%1.8 min0.0%
STL–DFWSt. Louis to Dallas/Fort Worth17981.0%17.6 min0.6%
STL–MDWSt. Louis to Chicago17688.1%-1.0 min0.0%
STL–PHXSt. Louis to Phoenix17586.3%4.1 min0.0%
STL–CLTSt. Louis to Charlotte17387.3%6.3 min0.0%
STL–DALSt. Louis to Dallas17280.8%2.0 min0.0%
STL–DTWSt. Louis to Detroit16392.0%-5.9 min0.0%
STL–MSPSt. Louis to Minneapolis16392.0%-5.3 min0.0%

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), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Nov 2023Minutes
Air carrier40.3%42.5%16,656
Late-arriving aircraft49.8%37.3%20,577
National Aviation System8.7%16.2%3,585
Extreme weather1.1%3.7%451
Security0.1%0.3%33
41,302 delay minutes on 667 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left STL on time in November 2023?

84.9% of 5,245 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 86.0% and 86.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 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 November 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for STL · methodology · corrections.