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Airport month · January 2024

St Louis Lambert International in January 2024

71.5%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 4,935 domestic departures from St Louis Lambert International (STL). 71.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 70.5% reached their destination on time; 4.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so STL departures were 2.5 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at STL that month were on time 73.4% of the time (4,935 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, air carrier 34% and national aviation system 18%.

Every scheduled departure from STL in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureJan 2024Year earlierSTL, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time71.5%—74.1%74.0%
Arrived on time70.5%—76.8%72.9%
Cancelled4.5%—1.3%3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)17.8 min—17.6 min18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day165—17418,242
Scheduled departures4,935—63,318547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines3,12263%68.7%9.7 min4.5%
AA American Airlines54811%73.2%28.0 min2.6%
DL Delta Air Lines3778%81.4%4.4 min2.1%
UA United Airlines2194%69.9%9.2 min5.0%
MQ Envoy Air1473%59.9%11.1 min10.9%
9E Endeavor Air1463%73.3%4.2 min6.8%
YX Republic Airline1263%79.4%-3.3 min7.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines792%69.6%21.0 min1.3%
OO SkyWest Airlines741%82.4%2.8 min5.4%
AS Alaska Airlines381%76.3%-13.6 min13.2%
OH PSA Airlines351%60.0%48.0 min14.3%
NK Spirit Airlines240%37.5%45.9 min4.2%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
STL–DENSt. Louis to Denver31075.2%4.4 min3.2%
STL–LGASt. Louis to New York30972.2%9.1 min8.1%
STL–ATLSt. Louis to Atlanta26478.4%6.4 min1.1%
STL–MCOSt. Louis to Orlando20863.0%22.8 min1.9%
STL–DCASt. Louis to Washington20269.3%26.9 min6.9%
STL–PHXSt. Louis to Phoenix19075.8%1.5 min2.1%
STL–DALSt. Louis to Dallas17870.8%8.9 min3.9%
STL–DFWSt. Louis to Dallas/Fort Worth17360.7%38.9 min1.2%
STL–ORDSt. Louis to Chicago17259.9%29.9 min9.3%
STL–MSPSt. Louis to Minneapolis16778.4%7.2 min2.4%
STL–CLTSt. Louis to Charlotte14776.9%10.8 min2.0%
STL–MDWSt. Louis to Chicago14669.9%4.4 min11.6%

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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2024Minutes
Air carrier33.7%32.6%27,448
Late-arriving aircraft43.9%39.0%35,769
National Aviation System18.3%17.9%14,940
Extreme weather4.0%10.3%3,271
Security0.1%0.2%84
81,512 delay minutes on 1,224 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 January 2024?

71.5% of 4,935 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 70.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 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 January 2024; 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.