On-Time Report

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Airport month · May 2024

Tulsa International in May 2024

77.5%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 1,516 domestic departures from Tulsa International (TUL). 77.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.8% reached their destination on time; 2.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so TUL departures were 4.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TUL that month were on time 67.8% of the time (1,515 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 37%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 23%.

Every scheduled departure from TUL in May 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureMay 2024Year earlierTUL, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time77.5%—81.3%73.4%
Arrived on time74.8%—80.6%72.3%
Cancelled2.1%—1.8%1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)21.3 min—15.5 min20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day51—5020,325
Scheduled departures1,516—18,315609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines47131%75.2%9.9 min0.8%
OO SkyWest Airlines37825%81.2%12.2 min1.6%
AA American Airlines18112%57.5%61.5 min7.7%
MQ Envoy Air15610%69.2%19.1 min4.5%
DL Delta Air Lines1158%78.3%0.7 min0.9%
YX Republic Airline624%85.5%-5.6 min0.0%
UA United Airlines473%76.6%9.8 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air403%85.0%-4.3 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air352%77.1%6.8 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines312%67.7%9.2 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
TUL–DFWTulsa to Dallas/Fort Worth24660.6%46.4 min8.1%
TUL–DENTulsa to Denver19072.6%11.4 min0.0%
TUL–ORDTulsa to Chicago17575.4%16.1 min0.6%
TUL–ATLTulsa to Atlanta15078.0%2.1 min0.7%
TUL–DALTulsa to Dallas9975.8%14.3 min1.0%
TUL–PHXTulsa to Phoenix9786.6%3.1 min0.0%
TUL–LASTulsa to Las Vegas6789.6%-2.3 min0.0%
TUL–HOUTulsa to Houston6668.2%8.9 min4.5%
TUL–CLTTulsa to Charlotte6269.4%16.7 min3.2%
TUL–SLCTulsa to Salt Lake City6088.3%5.5 min0.0%
TUL–STLTulsa to St. Louis5877.6%13.2 min0.0%
TUL–IAHTulsa to Houston5671.4%53.1 min7.1%

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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, May 2024Minutes
Air carrier27.5%29.8%8,766
Late-arriving aircraft36.5%43.0%11,627
National Aviation System22.6%20.1%7,216
Extreme weather13.3%7.0%4,250
Security0.0%0.1%0
31,859 delay minutes on 344 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 TUL on time in May 2024?

77.5% of 1,516 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.8% 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 TUL · methodology · corrections.