Syracuse Hancock International in April 2024

86.7%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,103 domestic departures from Syracuse Hancock International (SYR). 86.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.8% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so SYR departures were 6.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SYR that month were on time 80.7% of the time (1,104 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 33%, national aviation system 32% and air carrier 31%.

On time 86.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.5%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from SYR in April 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	SYR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	86.7%	—	78.1%	80.5%
Arrived on time	86.8%	—	73.7%	80.2%
Cancelled	0.6%	—	2.6%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.8 min	—	19.2 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	37	—	28	19,406
Scheduled departures	1,103	—	10,341	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
9E Endeavor Air	177	16%	90.4%	-11.7 min	1.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines	123	11%	82.1%	-1.1 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	120	11%	83.3%	4.8 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	118	11%	85.6%	3.2 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	101	9%	91.1%	-3.3 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	97	9%	95.9%	-13.5 min	0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways	90	8%	78.9%	5.6 min	2.2%
UA United Airlines	90	8%	83.3%	-2.5 min	1.1%
G4 Allegiant Air	79	7%	88.6%	0.0 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	59	5%	88.1%	-3.1 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	42	4%	85.7%	5.4 min	2.4%
OH PSA Airlines	7	1%	85.7%	17.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SYR–ORD	Syracuse to Chicago	142	80.3%	1.1 min	0.0%
SYR–DTW	Syracuse to Detroit	116	90.5%	-9.6 min	0.9%
SYR–JFK	Syracuse to New York	112	86.6%	-5.0 min	1.8%
SYR–CLT	Syracuse to Charlotte	90	83.3%	5.8 min	0.0%
SYR–BWI	Syracuse to Baltimore	87	89.7%	-5.3 min	0.0%
SYR–ATL	Syracuse to Atlanta	86	96.5%	-13.2 min	0.0%
SYR–DCA	Syracuse to Washington	86	90.7%	-0.8 min	0.0%
SYR–LGA	Syracuse to New York	82	87.8%	-7.9 min	1.2%
SYR–MCO	Syracuse to Orlando	82	78.0%	14.0 min	0.0%
SYR–DEN	Syracuse to Denver	41	87.8%	-7.5 min	2.4%
SYR–BOS	Syracuse to Boston	30	90.0%	-7.4 min	3.3%
SYR–DFW	Syracuse to Dallas/Fort Worth	30	83.3%	1.8 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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	30.5%	33.6%	2,983
Late-arriving aircraft	33.3%	41.0%	3,259
National Aviation System	32.0%	20.0%	3,123
Extreme weather	4.2%	5.1%	408
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

9,773 delay minutes on 138 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 SYR on time in April 2024?

86.7% of 1,103 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for SYR · methodology · corrections.