McGhee Tyson in January 2024

73.4%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 1,117 domestic departures from McGhee Tyson (TYS). 73.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 68.7% reached their destination on time; 6.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so TYS departures were 0.6 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TYS that month were on time 67.2% of the time (1,119 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 37%, air carrier 35% and national aviation system 17%.

On time 68.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 25.0%
Cancelled 6.3%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from TYS 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	TYS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	73.4%	—	76.3%	74.0%
Arrived on time	68.7%	—	75.1%	72.9%
Cancelled	6.3%	—	2.1%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	24.9 min	—	22.0 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	37	—	37	18,242
Scheduled departures	1,117	—	13,561	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	252	23%	67.1%	6.1 min	9.5%
9E Endeavor Air	250	22%	74.8%	9.6 min	4.8%
G4 Allegiant Air	163	15%	68.1%	23.0 min	3.7%
AA American Airlines	145	13%	59.3%	41.2 min	4.1%
OO SkyWest Airlines	131	12%	67.2%	16.4 min	9.2%
MQ Envoy Air	65	6%	64.6%	12.1 min	4.6%
DL Delta Air Lines	54	5%	81.5%	10.2 min	1.9%
YX Republic Airline	42	4%	71.4%	7.2 min	11.9%
F9 Frontier Airlines	15	1%	66.7%	14.7 min	6.7%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TYS–CLT	Knoxville to Charlotte	203	64.5%	25.6 min	7.4%
TYS–ATL	Knoxville to Atlanta	202	72.8%	16.8 min	3.5%
TYS–DCA	Knoxville to Washington	106	62.3%	16.9 min	9.4%
TYS–LGA	Knoxville to New York	96	80.2%	-2.5 min	8.3%
TYS–DFW	Knoxville to Dallas/Fort Worth	91	60.4%	18.1 min	3.3%
TYS–ORD	Knoxville to Chicago	86	59.3%	38.7 min	14.0%
TYS–DEN	Knoxville to Denver	68	76.5%	-7.3 min	2.9%
TYS–SFB	Knoxville to Sanford	51	76.5%	7.0 min	3.9%
TYS–DTW	Knoxville to Detroit	31	83.9%	-6.7 min	3.2%
TYS–MIA	Knoxville to Miami	31	71.0%	0.5 min	6.5%
TYS–PHL	Knoxville to Philadelphia	31	74.2%	-6.8 min	9.7%
TYS–FLL	Knoxville to Fort Lauderdale	29	65.5%	24.1 min	3.4%

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	35.0%	32.6%	9,598
Late-arriving aircraft	37.4%	39.0%	10,242
National Aviation System	16.5%	17.9%	4,532
Extreme weather	10.6%	10.3%	2,902
Security	0.5%	0.2%	141

27,415 delay minutes on 279 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 TYS on time in January 2024?

73.4% of 1,117 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 68.7% 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 TYS · methodology · corrections.