On-time performance

Lovell Fld (CHA) on-time performance, September 2026

1,060 scheduled airline departures from Chattanooga in September 2026, 77.3% of them on time. Measured from FAA departure data, updated every morning.

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

1,060
departures
77.3%
on time (within 15 min)
12.4%
45+ min late
15.1 min
average departure delay

On time, day by day

Share of departures within 15 minutes of schedule, by day. Light bars show each day's departures for context. Worst day: Friday 4 September at 60.0%. Best: Saturday 26 September at 97.2%.

60%70%80%90%100%2026-09-01: 29 departures, 82.8% on time2026-09-02: 30 departures, 86.7% on time2026-09-03: 31 departures, 74.2% on time2026-09-04: 35 departures, 60.0% on time2026-09-05: 31 departures, 74.2% on time2026-09-06: 32 departures, 81.2% on time2026-09-07: 32 departures, 87.5% on time2026-09-08: 31 departures, 83.9% on time2026-09-09: 35 departures, 91.4% on time2026-09-10: 36 departures, 83.3% on time2026-09-11: 42 departures, 61.9% on time2026-09-12: 33 departures, 72.7% on time2026-09-13: 33 departures, 78.8% on time2026-09-14: 38 departures, 73.7% on time2026-09-15: 36 departures, 80.6% on time2026-09-16: 37 departures, 91.9% on time2026-09-17: 37 departures, 75.7% on time2026-09-18: 39 departures, 74.4% on time2026-09-19: 33 departures, 66.7% on time2026-09-20: 39 departures, 74.4% on time2026-09-21: 39 departures, 66.7% on time2026-09-22: 40 departures, 62.5% on time2026-09-23: 36 departures, 72.2% on time2026-09-24: 40 departures, 80.0% on time2026-09-25: 39 departures, 84.6% on time2026-09-26: 36 departures, 97.2% on time2026-09-27: 35 departures, 77.1% on time2026-09-28: 37 departures, 62.2% on time2026-09-29: 33 departures, 90.9% on time2026-09-30: 36 departures, 77.8% on time2026-09-01: 82.8% on time (29 departures)012026-09-02: 86.7% on time (30 departures)2026-09-03: 74.2% on time (31 departures)2026-09-04: 60.0% on time (35 departures)042026-09-05: 74.2% on time (31 departures)2026-09-06: 81.2% on time (32 departures)2026-09-07: 87.5% on time (32 departures)072026-09-08: 83.9% on time (31 departures)2026-09-09: 91.4% on time (35 departures)2026-09-10: 83.3% on time (36 departures)102026-09-11: 61.9% on time (42 departures)2026-09-12: 72.7% on time (33 departures)2026-09-13: 78.8% on time (33 departures)132026-09-14: 73.7% on time (38 departures)2026-09-15: 80.6% on time (36 departures)2026-09-16: 91.9% on time (37 departures)162026-09-17: 75.7% on time (37 departures)2026-09-18: 74.4% on time (39 departures)2026-09-19: 66.7% on time (33 departures)192026-09-20: 74.4% on time (39 departures)2026-09-21: 66.7% on time (39 departures)2026-09-22: 62.5% on time (40 departures)222026-09-23: 72.2% on time (36 departures)2026-09-24: 80.0% on time (40 departures)2026-09-25: 84.6% on time (39 departures)252026-09-26: 97.2% on time (36 departures)2026-09-27: 77.1% on time (35 departures)2026-09-28: 62.2% on time (37 departures)282026-09-29: 90.9% on time (33 departures)2026-09-30: 77.8% on time (36 departures)30

Airlines at CHA, ranked by on-time share

Scheduled airlines with at least 30 departures from CHA in the month. Regional partners (SkyWest, Republic, Envoy and the like) appear under their own names; fractional and charter operators are in the totals but not listed.

AirlineDeparturesOn time45+ min lateAvg delay (min)
Piedmont Airlines PDT19382.9%7.8%10.7
PSA Airlines JIA6681.8%7.6%5.8
Endeavor Air EDV20881.7%9.1%9.8
SkyWest SKW9075.6%17.8%30.1
Delta Air Lines DAL15575.5%11.6%13.9
Envoy Air ENY9874.5%13.3%16.7
American Airlines AAL6071.7%20.0%17.0
GoJet Airlines GJS11961.3%26.9%35.4

Destinations with the longest delays

Routes from CHA with at least 20 departures, by average departure delay.

ToFlightsOn timeAvg delay
EWR Newark2352.2%57.9
ORD Chicago17866.9%30.3
IAH Houston6173.8%29.9
LGA New York5375.5%18.3
DFW Dallas-Fort Worth11575.7%11.8
DTW Detroit5580.0%10.6
ATL Atlanta25579.6%10.4
CLT Charlotte21483.6%9.9
DCA Washington2692.3%-3.5
MEM Memphis22100.0%-12.8

Busiest destinations

The ten routes with the most departures from CHA this month.

ToFlightsOn timeAvg delay
ATL Atlanta25579.6%10.4
CLT Charlotte21483.6%9.9
ORD Chicago17866.9%30.3
DFW Dallas-Fort Worth11575.7%11.8
IAH Houston6173.8%29.9
DTW Detroit5580.0%10.6
LGA New York5375.5%18.3
DCA Washington2692.3%-3.5
EWR Newark2352.2%57.9
MEM Memphis22100.0%-12.8

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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 at CHA (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).