McGhee Tyson in March 2024

84.0%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,184 domestic departures from McGhee Tyson (TYS). 84.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.3% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so TYS departures were 5.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at TYS that month were on time 78.8% of the time (1,183 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 39% and national aviation system 16%.

On time 83.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.0%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from TYS in March 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	TYS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	84.0%	—	76.3%	78.5%
Arrived on time	83.3%	—	75.1%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	2.1%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.6 min	—	22.0 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	40	—	37	19,726
Scheduled departures	1,184	—	13,561	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	270	23%	82.2%	7.3 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	209	18%	91.4%	-10.3 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	173	15%	74.0%	26.0 min	1.2%
AA American Airlines	155	13%	81.3%	-2.4 min	0.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines	123	10%	89.4%	-11.5 min	0.8%
DL Delta Air Lines	110	9%	87.3%	-1.3 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	63	5%	79.4%	6.2 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	54	5%	81.5%	4.8 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	27	2%	70.4%	51.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TYS–CLT	Knoxville to Charlotte	217	82.0%	0.1 min	0.0%
TYS–ATL	Knoxville to Atlanta	210	90.5%	-5.4 min	0.0%
TYS–DFW	Knoxville to Dallas/Fort Worth	120	79.2%	8.1 min	0.8%
TYS–LGA	Knoxville to New York	104	83.7%	-3.0 min	0.0%
TYS–ORD	Knoxville to Chicago	91	84.6%	0.4 min	0.0%
TYS–DCA	Knoxville to Washington	83	79.5%	14.4 min	0.0%
TYS–DEN	Knoxville to Denver	76	90.8%	-5.4 min	1.3%
TYS–SFB	Knoxville to Sanford	52	75.0%	13.1 min	1.9%
TYS–PHL	Knoxville to Philadelphia	35	91.4%	-13.1 min	0.0%
TYS–DTW	Knoxville to Detroit	31	100.0%	-19.0 min	0.0%
TYS–FLL	Knoxville to Fort Lauderdale	31	74.2%	25.1 min	0.0%
TYS–MIA	Knoxville to Miami	31	80.6%	9.1 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	38.7%	32.1%	6,845
Late-arriving aircraft	42.0%	42.1%	7,416
National Aviation System	16.3%	21.4%	2,888
Extreme weather	2.9%	4.2%	512
Security	0.1%	0.2%	11

17,672 delay minutes on 190 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 March 2024?

84.0% of 1,184 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.