Tri Cities in October 2025

80.3%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 147 domestic departures from Tri Cities (TRI). 80.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.9% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so TRI departures were level with the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 256 departures with 89.1% leaving on time: a change of −8.8 points, with flights down 43%.

Flights arriving at TRI that month were on time 79.6% of the time (147 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 52%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 11%.

On time 78.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.1%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from TRI in October 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

October 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Oct 2025	Oct 2024	TRI, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time	80.3%	89.1%	76.1%	80.0%
Arrived on time	78.9%	89.5%	77.0%	79.1%
Cancelled	0.0%	0.4%	2.1%	0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	19.0 min	8.2 min	22.1 min	13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	5	9	4	20,195
Scheduled departures	147	256	1,483	605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DL Delta Air Lines	62	42%	91.9%	-8.3 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	62	42%	72.6%	20.2 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	15	10%	53.3%	28.0 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	8	5%	75.0%	17.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TRI–ATL	Bristol/Johnson City/Kingsport to Atlanta	70	90.0%	-5.4 min	0.0%
TRI–DFW	Bristol/Johnson City/Kingsport to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	72.6%	20.2 min	0.0%
TRI–SFB	Bristol/Johnson City/Kingsport to Sanford	15	53.3%	28.0 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

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

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	27.7%	34.0%	778
Late-arriving aircraft	51.7%	39.7%	1,455
National Aviation System	10.7%	22.9%	300
Extreme weather	9.9%	3.3%	279
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

2,812 delay minutes on 31 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 TRI on time in October 2025?

80.3% of 147 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 89.1% of 256 departures left on time and 0.4% were cancelled, against 80.3% and 0.0% in October 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for October 2025; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for TRI · methodology · corrections.