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Horizon Air

According to PlainFlights' airline traffic ranking (BTS On-Time Performance total flights), Horizon Air ranks #17 of 18 tracked US carriers by total flights (most flights = #1).

Data updated 2026-06-13

85.7%
On-time
+6.7 pts
vs US avg
59 min
Delay when late
1.80%
Cancelled
#17 of 18
Corpus placement

According to PlainFlights' airline traffic ranking (BTS On-Time Performance total flights), Horizon Air ranks #17 of 18 tracked US carriers by total flights (most flights = #1). How we place airlines.

BTS on-time dispatch plate

Carrier QX · Horizon Air

ONTIME-ELITE · ABOVE-AVG · BOOK-LIGHT · LATE-AC · CX-WARM · SPREAD-WIDE

  • ONTIME-ELITE 85.7% on-time
  • ABOVE-AVG +6.7 pts vs US
  • BOOK-LIGHT 200K flights
  • LATE-AC Late aircraft lead
  • CX-WARM 1.80% cancel
  • SPREAD-WIDE 23-pt season gap

Nearest on-time peer: Republic Airways ( -0.8 pts)

Instrument codes from this carrier’s BTS on-time band, national gap, flight-book size, leading delay cause, cancel posture, and seasonal spread, not a booking recommendation.

On-time neighbourhood

Poles + nearest peers, not a full 18-carrier reprint

Value

What this shows How QX sits among BTS on-time poles and nearest peers.

Source BTS On-Time Performance As of 2021–2022

Horizon Air - monthly on-time rate

Last 24 months reported; ranged 70%–93%

60%70%80%90%100% Jan '21Apr '21Jul '21Oct '21Jan '22Apr '22Jul '22Oct '22Dec '22 69.8%

Horizon Air - BTS Delay Tier Breakdown

How Horizon Air flights distribute across federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics arrival-delay tiers. The on-time band uses the BTS 15-minute threshold; longer-delay tiers reflect arrival-time bins reported in the underlying database.

Horizon Air (QX) - flight delay tier distribution Stacked horizontal bar showing what percent of Horizon Air (QX) flights fell into each Bureau of Transportation Statistics delay tier: on-time (under 15 minutes late), delayed (15-60 minutes), heavily delayed (60-120 minutes), severe (120+ minutes), and cancelled. Horizon Air (QX) Flight delay tiers · BTS On-Time Performance methodology 85.7% 12.5% 0% 100% On time <15m · 85.7% Delayed 15–60m · 12.5% Cancelled cnx · 1.8%
Tiers follow Bureau of Transportation Statistics On-Time Performance definitions, a flight is on-time if it arrives less than 15 minutes after schedule.

Delay Cause Breakdown

Top delay cause: Late Aircraft. Total delay minutes: 1,454,145.

Late Aircraft 40.1% (582,893 min)
Carrier 36.7% (534,207 min)
NAS (National Aviation System) 17.3% (252,071 min)
Weather 5.5% (80,255 min)
Security 0.3% (4,719 min)

Seasonal on-time calendar

Multi-year average by calendar month for QX (BTS 2021–2022), not a single recent year.

  • Best month

    October

    90.1% on-time · ~6,665 flights/mo

  • Mid pack

    August

    85.8% on-time · ~9,687 flights/mo

  • Worst month

    December

    72.5% on-time · ~6,476 flights/mo

Spread 17.6 pts between October and December. The monthly chart above shows the recent path; this desk ranks the long-run calendar.

QX delay-share reading

Across 200,419 BTS-reported flights (2021–2022), Horizon Air posts 85.7% on-time, 6.7 points above the 79% national flight-weighted average, with 28,682 delayed arrivals and 3,608 cancellations (1.80% of the book). When a flight runs late, the average delay is 59.0 minutes.

Delay minutes concentrate in Late Aircraft (40.1% late-aircraft, 36.7% carrier, 17.3% NAS, 5.5% weather, 0.3% security across 1,454,145 total delay minutes). That mix is this carrier’s fingerprint, not a fleet-wide template sentence.

On the multi-year calendar, QX is strongest in October (90.1% on-time on about 6,665 flights per month) and weakest in December (72.5%). The 17.6-point seasonal swing is why the dispatch plate stamps a season code for this airline alone.

Nearest on-time peer

Closest BTS on-time neighbour for QX, not a universal board reprint.

Republic Airways

-0.8 pts on-time vs QX

Republic Airways on-time profile

Field definitions: on-time performance explained.

Data Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2021–2022). Statistics reflect cumulative performance across all available reporting periods. On-time rates exclude cancelled and diverted flights.
Data sourced from U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) On-Time Performance data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainFlights

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Every figure on PlainFlights is rendered directly from BTS On-Time Performance data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page aggregates this airline's on-time performance and delay-cause breakdown, live from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.