Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (SDF) on-time performance, September 2026
7,286 scheduled airline departures from Louisville in September 2026, 79.3% of them on time. Measured from FAA departure data, updated every morning.
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: Saturday 12 September at 65.0%. Best: Monday 7 September at 92.9%.
Airlines at SDF, ranked by on-time share
Scheduled airlines with at least 30 departures from SDF 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.
| Airline | Departures | On time | 45+ min late | Avg delay (min) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Express FDX | 46 | 100.0% | 0.0% | -18.9 |
| Allegiant Air AAY | 57 | 89.5% | 1.8% | -3.0 |
| Delta Air Lines DAL | 234 | 88.5% | 6.0% | 2.2 |
| American Airlines AAL | 196 | 87.2% | 5.1% | 5.0 |
| Southwest Airlines SWA | 426 | 86.6% | 5.4% | 3.0 |
| Mesa Airlines ASH | 130 | 86.2% | 6.9% | 4.8 |
| Cargojet Airways CJT | 102 | 85.3% | 1.0% | -0.8 |
| United Airlines UAL | 61 | 85.2% | 6.6% | 5.0 |
| Breeze Airways MXY | 53 | 84.9% | 3.8% | -5.2 |
| Envoy Air ENY | 160 | 83.8% | 10.0% | 6.1 |
| Republic Airways RPA | 586 | 81.4% | 11.1% | 8.3 |
| PSA Airlines JIA | 109 | 80.7% | 9.2% | 13.7 |
| United Parcel Service UPS | 4,548 | 79.0% | 7.5% | 10.0 |
| Endeavor Air EDV | 168 | 73.2% | 11.9% | 14.5 |
| Amerijet International AJT | 48 | 70.8% | 20.8% | 33.5 |
| GoJet Airlines GJS | 44 | 65.9% | 29.5% | 30.4 |
| SkyWest SKW | 89 | 64.0% | 18.0% | 31.1 |
| Air Cargo Carriers SNC | 81 | 38.3% | 32.1% | 38.1 |
Destinations with the longest delays
Routes from SDF with at least 20 departures, by average departure delay.
| To | Flights | On time | Avg delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| BKW Beckley | 22 | 18.2% | 57.5 |
| BOS Boston | 111 | 40.5% | 52.3 |
| MTY Monterrey | 23 | 69.6% | 33.7 |
| TVF Thief River Falls | 21 | 9.5% | 33.7 |
| MKE Milwaukee | 49 | 65.3% | 30.2 |
| MIA Miami | 141 | 80.9% | 29.2 |
| ANC Anchorage | 166 | 60.2% | 25.7 |
| LIT Little Rock | 21 | 38.1% | 25.6 |
| CGN Cologne | 84 | 64.3% | 24.8 |
| ABY Albany | 20 | 75.0% | 22.6 |
Busiest destinations
The ten routes with the most departures from SDF this month.
| To | Flights | On time | Avg delay |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORD Chicago | 368 | 75.5% | 16.5 |
| ATL Atlanta | 320 | 86.6% | 2.8 |
| DFW Dallas-Fort Worth | 295 | 82.7% | 4.5 |
| EWR Newark | 228 | 88.6% | 1.7 |
| PHL Philadelphia | 213 | 83.1% | 7.3 |
| CLT Charlotte | 202 | 85.1% | 3.9 |
| MSP Minneapolis | 177 | 79.1% | 6.3 |
| DEN Denver | 171 | 90.6% | -0.3 |
| ANC Anchorage | 166 | 60.2% | 25.7 |
| IAH Houston | 160 | 89.4% | 2.2 |
Other months for SDF
Airline pages for 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 at SDF (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).