On-Time Report

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Airport month · October 2025

Cherry Capital in October 2025

78.9%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 489 domestic departures from Cherry Capital (TVC). 78.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 72.6% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so TVC departures were 1.1 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 292 departures with 87.0% leaving on time: a change of −8.1 points, with flights up 67%.

Flights arriving at TVC that month were on time 81.4% of the time (489 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 50%, late-arriving aircraft 25% and national aviation system 23%.

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

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

MeasureOct 2025Oct 2024TVC, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time78.9%87.0%71.9%80.0%
Arrived on time72.6%89.7%69.7%79.1%
Cancelled0.2%1.0%3.7%0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)19.2 min13.6 min25.4 min13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day16101520,195
Scheduled departures4892925,593605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines20642%72.8%25.0 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines7716%59.7%22.2 min1.3%
UA United Airlines5611%78.6%3.3 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air388%71.1%2.7 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline357%88.6%-0.2 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines327%84.4%-1.7 min0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air276%74.1%4.3 min0.0%
AA American Airlines112%72.7%-5.2 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways71%28.6%38.3 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
TVC–ORDTraverse City to Chicago28665.7%25.4 min0.3%
TVC–DTWTraverse City to Detroit8985.4%3.2 min0.0%
TVC–CLTTraverse City to Charlotte3187.1%-11.2 min0.0%
TVC–DENTraverse City to Denver3190.3%-4.8 min0.0%
TVC–DFWTraverse City to Dallas/Fort Worth1369.2%2.8 min0.0%
TVC–PGDTraverse City to Punta Gorda977.8%-2.5 min0.0%
TVC–PIETraverse City to St. Petersburg9100.0%-8.6 min0.0%
TVC–SFBTraverse City to Sanford944.4%23.2 min0.0%
TVC–BOSTraverse City to Boston728.6%38.3 min0.0%
TVC–DCATraverse City to Washington5100.0%-11.0 min0.0%

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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Oct 2025Minutes
Air carrier50.0%34.0%5,094
Late-arriving aircraft25.0%39.7%2,549
National Aviation System22.8%22.9%2,324
Extreme weather2.1%3.3%218
Security0.0%0.1%0
10,185 delay minutes on 132 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 TVC on time in October 2025?

78.9% of 489 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 72.6% 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, 87.0% of 292 departures left on time and 1.0% were cancelled, against 78.9% and 0.2% 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 TVC · methodology · corrections.