Cherry Capital in May 2025

86.2%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 319 domestic departures from Cherry Capital (TVC). 86.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.2% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 75.4% arrived on time, so TVC departures were 9.5 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in May 2024, the airport had 274 departures with 80.7% leaving on time: a change of +5.5 points, with flights up 16%.

Flights arriving at TVC that month were on time 76.8% of the time (319 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 34%, late-arriving aircraft 29% and national aviation system 27%.

On time 81.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.8%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from TVC in May 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	May 2025	May 2024	TVC, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2025
Departed on time	86.2%	80.7%	71.9%	76.7%
Arrived on time	81.2%	79.9%	69.7%	75.4%
Cancelled	0.0%	1.5%	3.7%	1.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.6 min	14.0 min	25.4 min	17.5 min
Scheduled departures a day	11	9	15	20,188
Scheduled departures	319	274	5,593	605,648

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
MQ Envoy Air	122	38%	77.0%	8.3 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	88	28%	84.1%	0.7 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	41	13%	82.9%	16.2 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	35	11%	74.3%	15.3 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	33	10%	93.9%	-2.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TVC–ORD	Traverse City to Chicago	131	73.3%	10.2 min	0.0%
TVC–DTW	Traverse City to Detroit	93	92.5%	-0.9 min	0.0%
TVC–CLT	Traverse City to Charlotte	31	93.5%	2.5 min	0.0%
TVC–DEN	Traverse City to Denver	27	74.1%	13.4 min	0.0%
TVC–AZA	Traverse City to Phoenix	10	70.0%	25.2 min	0.0%
TVC–PIE	Traverse City to St. Petersburg	9	66.7%	34.4 min	0.0%
TVC–SFB	Traverse City to Sanford	9	88.9%	-7.8 min	0.0%
TVC–PGD	Traverse City to Punta Gorda	4	100.0%	-9.7 min	0.0%
TVC–FLL	Traverse City to Fort Lauderdale	3	33.3%	27.0 min	0.0%
TVC–ATL	Traverse City to Atlanta	2	100.0%	-22.0 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), May 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	33.6%	29.3%	1,365
Late-arriving aircraft	28.9%	37.8%	1,175
National Aviation System	27.1%	25.9%	1,101
Extreme weather	10.3%	6.9%	419
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

4,060 delay minutes on 60 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 TVC on time in May 2025?

86.2% of 319 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 75.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In May 2024, 80.7% of 274 departures left on time and 1.5% were cancelled, against 86.2% and 0.0% in May 2025.

Provenance

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