Tucson International in January 2024

82.8%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 1,582 domestic departures from Tucson International (TUS). 82.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.2% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so TUS departures were 8.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TUS that month were on time 77.5% of the time (1,584 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 36%, air carrier 32% and extreme weather 19%.

On time 82.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.8%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	TUS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	82.8%	—	82.2%	74.0%
Arrived on time	82.2%	—	82.6%	72.9%
Cancelled	0.9%	—	1.0%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.4 min	—	14.0 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	53	—	54	18,242
Scheduled departures	1,582	—	19,536	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	642	41%	84.6%	4.0 min	0.2%
WN Southwest Airlines	355	22%	83.7%	0.1 min	1.7%
AA American Airlines	266	17%	74.8%	14.3 min	0.8%
DL Delta Air Lines	127	8%	88.2%	1.9 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	124	8%	79.0%	20.6 min	2.4%
AS Alaska Airlines	44	3%	70.5%	10.0 min	4.5%
MQ Envoy Air	24	2%	87.5%	-2.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TUS–PHX	Tucson to Phoenix	257	84.0%	4.0 min	0.0%
TUS–DEN	Tucson to Denver	216	85.6%	-1.1 min	2.8%
TUS–LAX	Tucson to Los Angeles	196	78.1%	9.9 min	0.0%
TUS–DFW	Tucson to Dallas/Fort Worth	184	73.4%	17.4 min	0.5%
TUS–LAS	Tucson to Las Vegas	119	83.2%	1.6 min	0.0%
TUS–SLC	Tucson to Salt Lake City	91	87.9%	0.3 min	0.0%
TUS–SFO	Tucson to San Francisco	86	82.6%	2.9 min	0.0%
TUS–SEA	Tucson to Seattle	82	78.0%	6.8 min	2.4%
TUS–ORD	Tucson to Chicago	75	80.0%	7.0 min	1.3%
TUS–ATL	Tucson to Atlanta	69	88.4%	-5.5 min	0.0%
TUS–IAH	Tucson to Houston	63	74.6%	29.5 min	3.2%
TUS–SAN	Tucson to San Diego	40	87.5%	4.2 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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	32.3%	32.6%	6,794
Late-arriving aircraft	36.4%	39.0%	7,662
National Aviation System	12.6%	17.9%	2,644
Extreme weather	18.8%	10.3%	3,955
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

21,055 delay minutes on 266 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 TUS on time in January 2024?

82.8% of 1,582 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.2% 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 TUS · methodology · corrections.