On-time performance

Airborne Express (ABX) on-time performance, September 2026

1,800 scheduled Airborne Express departures in US airspace in September 2026, 71.1% of them on time. Measured from FAA departure data, updated every morning.

1 September to 30 September 2026 · Free to quote with credit to PlaneTrack (CC BY 4.0)

1,800
departures
71.1%
on time (within 15 min)
9.0%
45+ min late
10.1 min
average departure delay

On time, day by day

Share of Airborne Express departures within 15 minutes of schedule, by day. Light bars show each day's departures for context. Worst day: Sunday 13 September at 55.8%. Best: Tuesday 1 September at 82.9%.

60%70%80%90%100%2026-09-01: 70 departures, 82.9% on time2026-09-02: 64 departures, 76.6% on time2026-09-03: 64 departures, 64.1% on time2026-09-04: 70 departures, 68.6% on time2026-09-05: 51 departures, 60.8% on time2026-09-06: 41 departures, 68.3% on time2026-09-07: 55 departures, 74.5% on time2026-09-08: 48 departures, 72.9% on time2026-09-09: 64 departures, 60.9% on time2026-09-10: 68 departures, 69.1% on time2026-09-11: 67 departures, 74.6% on time2026-09-12: 50 departures, 66.0% on time2026-09-13: 43 departures, 55.8% on time2026-09-14: 52 departures, 82.7% on time2026-09-15: 67 departures, 74.6% on time2026-09-16: 67 departures, 71.6% on time2026-09-17: 69 departures, 71.0% on time2026-09-18: 70 departures, 75.7% on time2026-09-19: 57 departures, 70.2% on time2026-09-20: 48 departures, 60.4% on time2026-09-21: 53 departures, 77.4% on time2026-09-22: 70 departures, 74.3% on time2026-09-23: 71 departures, 71.8% on time2026-09-24: 68 departures, 66.2% on time2026-09-25: 70 departures, 72.9% on time2026-09-26: 51 departures, 70.6% on time2026-09-27: 46 departures, 67.4% on time2026-09-28: 53 departures, 79.2% on time2026-09-29: 65 departures, 76.9% on time2026-09-30: 68 departures, 66.2% on time2026-09-01: 82.9% on time (70 departures)012026-09-02: 76.6% on time (64 departures)2026-09-03: 64.1% on time (64 departures)2026-09-04: 68.6% on time (70 departures)042026-09-05: 60.8% on time (51 departures)2026-09-06: 68.3% on time (41 departures)2026-09-07: 74.5% on time (55 departures)072026-09-08: 72.9% on time (48 departures)2026-09-09: 60.9% on time (64 departures)2026-09-10: 69.1% on time (68 departures)102026-09-11: 74.6% on time (67 departures)2026-09-12: 66.0% on time (50 departures)2026-09-13: 55.8% on time (43 departures)132026-09-14: 82.7% on time (52 departures)2026-09-15: 74.6% on time (67 departures)2026-09-16: 71.6% on time (67 departures)162026-09-17: 71.0% on time (69 departures)2026-09-18: 75.7% on time (70 departures)2026-09-19: 70.2% on time (57 departures)192026-09-20: 60.4% on time (48 departures)2026-09-21: 77.4% on time (53 departures)2026-09-22: 74.3% on time (70 departures)222026-09-23: 71.8% on time (71 departures)2026-09-24: 66.2% on time (68 departures)2026-09-25: 72.9% on time (70 departures)252026-09-26: 70.6% on time (51 departures)2026-09-27: 67.4% on time (46 departures)2026-09-28: 79.2% on time (53 departures)282026-09-29: 76.9% on time (65 departures)2026-09-30: 66.2% on time (68 departures)30

Airports, ranked by on-time share

Airports with at least 30 Airborne Express departures in the month.

AirportDeparturesOn time45+ min lateAvg delay (min)
IAH Houston4887.5%0.0%-5.4
SJU San Juan4087.5%0.0%-1.5
SCK Stockton7584.0%5.3%-1.2
ONT Ontario3083.3%6.7%12.5
MHT Manchester5981.4%3.4%-1.7
SEA Seattle12479.0%4.0%-0.0
RFD Chicago/Rockford13877.5%9.4%9.9
LAX Los Angeles9273.9%7.6%8.8
PHX Phoenix4372.1%4.7%6.7
LAS Las Vegas3171.0%9.7%15.2
JFK New York4870.8%8.3%5.0
MIA Miami19869.7%13.1%11.0
CVG Cincinnati59064.9%9.7%15.6
AFW Fort Worth5949.2%15.3%25.2

Least punctual routes

Routes with at least 20 Airborne Express departures, lowest on-time share first.

RouteFlightsOn timeAvg delay
CVG to ORD Cincinnati to Chicago2231.8%59.3
CVG to PHX Cincinnati to Phoenix2236.4%20.5
MIA to BOG Miami to Bogota3938.5%33.5
AFW to SEA Fort Worth to Seattle3040.0%31.6
CVG to DFW Cincinnati to Dallas-Fort Worth2646.2%12.6
CVG to ATL Cincinnati to Atlanta2552.0%19.5
ATL to CVG Atlanta to Cincinnati2556.0%21.6
CVG to LAS Cincinnati to Las Vegas3056.7%17.2
PDX to SEA Portland to Seattle2157.1%14.6
CVG to JFK Cincinnati to New York4757.4%16.5

Busiest routes

The ten routes Airborne Express flew most this month.

RouteFlightsOn timeAvg delay
CVG to MIA Cincinnati to Miami6866.2%21.5
MIA to CVG Miami to Cincinnati6085.0%4.3
SEA to CVG Seattle to Cincinnati5574.5%4.5
LAX to CVG Los Angeles to Cincinnati4872.9%10.3
CVG to LAX Cincinnati to Los Angeles4866.7%12.8
CVG to JFK Cincinnati to New York4757.4%16.5
JFK to CVG New York to Cincinnati4770.2%5.3
CVG to SCK Cincinnati to Stockton4667.4%11.8
SCK to CVG Stockton to Cincinnati4591.1%-7.0
CVG to SJU Cincinnati to San Juan4182.9%3.3

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Other months for Airborne Express

September 2026

Airport pages for September 2026

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All US airports and airlines, September 2026

How we measure

On time means the aircraft took off within 15 minutes of its scheduled departure, after subtracting the departure airport's normal taxi time (FAA SWIM reports wheels-off, not push-back, so the median taxi time of the last 30 days is taken off every flight first). Average delay is the mean of that taxi-adjusted delay over all departures; early departures count as negative minutes, so an operator that routinely leaves early can show a negative average. 45+ min late is the share of departures that left 45 minutes or more behind schedule, the point at which most connections are at risk.

Scope: scheduled airlines only, the same set as the monthly State of the Sky report (operators with published routes; private, fractional and charter operators are left out), so the two publications give the same numbers for the same month. Departures are counted by scheduled day (UTC). Each day's flights are rolled up overnight and published the next morning; the newest day keeps filling in for a day or two and is only shown once it is substantially complete. Figures can differ by a few tenths of a point from the State of the Sky report for the same month: that report is frozen on the 2nd of the following month, while these pages are rebuilt from the live rollup, which recomputes each airport's taxi baseline nightly and re-rolls the last week of the month as late departure times arrive (September 2026 at SFO: 16,398 departures in both, 69.2% on time here against 69.5% in the report).

Source: FAA System Wide Information Management (SWIM) flight plans and departure times, processed by PlaneTrack. Free to quote with credit to PlaneTrack (CC BY 4.0).