Trenton Mercer in May 2024

66.5%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 170 domestic departures from Trenton Mercer (TTN). 66.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 68.8% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so TTN departures were 6.9 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TTN that month were on time 71.5% of the time (172 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 66%, national aviation system 21% and air carrier 12%.

On time 68.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 30.0%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.6%

Every scheduled departure from TTN 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	TTN, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	66.5%	—	74.6%	73.4%
Arrived on time	68.8%	—	74.1%	72.3%
Cancelled	0.6%	—	3.3%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	26.8 min	—	23.0 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	6	—	3	20,325
Scheduled departures	170	—	1,012	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
F9 Frontier Airlines	170	100%	68.8%	12.6 min	0.6%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TTN–MCO	Trenton to Orlando	54	70.4%	16.3 min	0.0%
TTN–TPA	Trenton to Tampa	35	60.0%	18.4 min	0.0%
TTN–ATL	Trenton to Atlanta	31	77.4%	6.5 min	0.0%
TTN–CLT	Trenton to Charlotte	18	61.1%	2.7 min	5.6%
TTN–RDU	Trenton to Raleigh/Durham	14	78.6%	0.9 min	0.0%
TTN–PBI	Trenton to West Palm Beach/Palm Beach	9	77.8%	9.0 min	0.0%
TTN–RSW	Trenton to Fort Myers	9	55.6%	30.9 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

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	12.3%	29.8%	505
Late-arriving aircraft	66.3%	43.0%	2,722
National Aviation System	20.7%	20.1%	851
Extreme weather	0.6%	7.0%	25
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

4,103 delay minutes on 51 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 TTN on time in May 2024?

66.5% of 170 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 68.8% 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 TTN · methodology · corrections.