ABQ Airport: 83.2% on time, worst at 11 PM

ABQ right now

Live conditions where a permitted source publishes them, and the historical record where none does.

No disruption reported

Aviation weather is not currently a factor.

Aviation weatherVFR

49°F · wind 0 kt

Minimal operational impact. Conditions are not a notable factor for operations right now.

Updated 07:52 UTC

Forecast issued 05:23Z.

Updated 05:23 UTC

Aircraft seen now

On the field0

Airborne within 15 NM1

Departed in the last hour0

Arrived in the last hour0

Below 10,000 ft, so aircraft overflying at cruise are not counted. These are observations, not an operational status: a count is a floor, since receiver coverage varies and a movement between two samples can be missed.

Updated 08:40 UTC

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Airport reliability

Departures from ABQ, July 2023 – July 2026.

Airport Reliability Score

76/ 100Strong

Better than 85% of major US airports covered by FlyerIntel (64 compared)

Calculated from 76,013 flights. How this is calculated

Departures arriving on time

83.2%

62,560 of 75,206 completed

Cancellation rate

0.83%

628 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-7 min

Average 3.6 min

Severe delays

5.4%

Arrived 60+ minutes late

Delay when late

69 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Departures analyzed

76,013

76,020 arrivals

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

What stands out

How this airport compares to others like it, not just to itself.

The airline matters unusually much at this airport, a wider carrier-to-carrier gap than 98% of 218 comparable airports.

Delta Air Lines arrived on time 91.0% of the time, against 62.4% for JetBlue, flying out of the exact same airport.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other airport with the same kind of figure and at least 218 in the comparison.

Why flights are cancelled at ABQ

Every cancellation carries a reason code filed by the airline that operated the flight. Departures, July 2023 – July 2026.

Extreme weather accounts for 64.6% of cancelled departures from ABQ — about 1 in every 187 scheduled departures. That is 5 points higher than the 59.5% recorded across every airport FlyerIntel covers.

Share of cancellations

Weather64.6%

Airline27.2%

Air traffic8.0%

Security0.2%

Of 628 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

Extreme weather1 in 187

Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.

406 cancellations, 64.6% of the total.

The airline1 in 445

Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.

171 cancellations, 27.2% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 1,520

Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.

50 cancellations, 8.0% of the total.

Security1 in 76,013

A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.

1 cancellation, 0.2% of the total.

628 of 76,013 scheduled departures from ABQ were cancelled. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026 · Reason codes are each airline’s own filing, not an independent finding of fault. Shown for airports with at least 500 coded cancellations; 628 were recorded at ABQ.

Why flights run late at ABQ

Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on departures from ABQ.

Late-arriving aircraft44.1%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

The airline32.8%

crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control

Air traffic control18.3%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

Weather4.7%

weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically

Security0.1%

screening or terminal security incidents

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for departures from ABQ. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Of the 12,715 departures from ABQ that left 15 or more minutes late and have a known inbound aircraft, 64% followed a flight that landed 15 or more minutes late. The other 36% left late even though the aircraft had come in on time or early. Across the 64 covered airports that share runs from 47% to 73%, with a median of 62%; ABQ’s is the 20th highest.

The late flight is the one the same aircraft flew into ABQ just before, found from the tail number in the DOT file. Airlines and hours differ from one airport to the next, so this describes the departures from ABQ and does not rate the airport.

An airport is only partly the author of its own delays. Late-arriving aircraft describes the national schedule arriving here more than anything about this airfield. Air traffic control covers airspace and airport capacity, which is where a congested airport shows up; only the airline category sits squarely inside the carriers’ own operation. How differently they run it is further down this page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

What weather costs at ABQ

Departures from ABQ by the weather at the airport in the hour they were scheduled to leave, July 2023 – July 2026.

5.4% of scheduled departures from ABQ left in an hour of bad weather. 1.7% of them were cancelled, against 0.8% in normal conditions, and 70.2% of the ones that flew arrived on time, against 84.0%. Those hours held 11% of all cancelled departures. That is about 38 more cancellations than the normal-conditions rate would give.

Cancellations were highest in high wind hours: 1.4% of 3,322 departures.

Airlines filed 65% of ABQ’s coded cancellations under extreme weather. By the weather at the airport in the scheduled hour, 11% of cancelled departures were in bad-weather hours. A code is the airline’s stated reason and an hour’s weather is what the airport reported, so the two need not match.

By weather

Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026

Cancellation and on-time rates at ABQ by the weather at the airport in the scheduled departure hour
Weather at the airport	Departures	Cancelled	Left on time	Arrived on time	Avg. departure delay
Normal conditionsVFR with no thunderstorm, snow or ice, fog, heavy rain or high wind	71,17093.8% of all	0.8%	82.9%	84.0%	8.8 min
Any bad weatherIFR or LIFR, or a thunderstorm, snow or ice, fog, heavy rain or high wind	4,1345.4% of all	1.7%2.2 times normal	71.4%	70.2%13.8 points below normal	19.3 min
MVFRceiling 1,000 to 3,000 feet or visibility 3 to 5 miles	7921.0% of all	1.6%2.1 times normal	77.8%	74.4%9.6 points below normal	16.6 min
IFRceiling 500 to 999 feet or visibility 1 to under 3 miles	3670.5% of all	5.2%6.7 times normal	72.4%	65.2%18.8 points below normal	21.9 min
LIFRceiling under 500 feet or visibility under 1 mile	2110.3% of all	5.7%7.4 times normal	69.8%	50.8%33.2 points below normal	37.4 min
Thunderstorma thunderstorm reported at the airport	4680.6% of all	1.1%	54.3%	53.7%30.3 points below normal	34.0 min
Snow or icesnow, snow grains, ice pellets, freezing rain or freezing drizzle	2890.4% of all	3.1%4.1 times normal	71.1%	57.0%27.0 points below normal	25.3 min
High windwind of 25 knots or more, or gusts of 30 knots or more	3,3224.4% of all	1.4%1.8 times normal	71.1%	72.1%11.9 points below normal	18.9 min
Low ceilinga broken or overcast layer under 1,000 feet	3200.4% of all	4.7%6.1 times normal	76.7%	61.7%22.3 points below normal	21.3 min
Low visibilityvisibility under 3 miles	4120.5% of all	6.6%8.5 times normal	66.0%	51.3%32.7 points below normal	35.6 min

A departure is counted in every row its hour fits, so the rows overlap and do not add up. Left on time is a departure under 15 minutes late, and arrived on time an arrival under 15 minutes late; cancelled is the share of scheduled departures. Rows with fewer than 120 departures are not scored. Too few departures to score: fog (75), heavy rain (75).

This is the weather reported at ABQ in the hour a flight was scheduled to leave. It leaves out the weather at the destination and on the way, weather that arrived after the scheduled time, and anything else that goes wrong in a bad hour. An hour takes the worst conditions any report in it gave. Weather was matched to 99.8% of the airport’s scheduled departures; the rest left in hours with no report, or at a scheduled time the flight records cannot place exactly. Bad-weather hours are compared with normal hours at the same airport, not with what the same flights would have done in a clear sky: they also fall more often in some seasons and at some times of day.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS flight records and Iowa Environmental Mesonet weather reports · July 2023 – July 2026 · Where the weather comes from, and its limits. All covered airports side by side: What Weather Costs Each Airport.

Turning aircraft around at ABQ

Time on the ground between one flight and the next of the same aircraft at ABQ, and what a late arrival does to the next departure, July 2023 – July 2026.

The median turn at ABQ is scheduled for 45 minutes on the ground and takes 50 minutes, against 56 minutes and 63 minutes across all airports. Aircraft are given less time on the ground here than at the typical airport. The typical turn runs 5 minutes over its schedule, closer to it than the 7 minutes across all airports.

When the aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late (9,650 turns here, 52 minutes late on average), 62% of the turns were finished in no more than the scheduled ground time, against 68% across all airports. 80% of those flights left 15 or more minutes late, against 72%. After an aircraft that landed on time, 9% did (all airports 11%).

Given the turn lengths scheduled here, the network’s rates would give 58% finished in the schedule and 82% leaving late. ABQ finishes more late turns in the schedule than the network would, but lateness is passed on about as often. 46% of its late-inbound turns had a scheduled turn of 30 to 44 minutes, against 20% across all airports.

Turns at ABQ against all airports

52,708 turns, July 2023 – July 2026

Aircraft turns at ABQ against all airports: scheduled and actual time on the ground and what a late inbound aircraft does
Measure	ABQ	All airports	All airports, same turn lengths
Median scheduled turn	45 min	56 min	—
Median actual turn	50 min	63 min	—
Turns that began with an aircraft 15+ minutes late	18%	19%	—
Late turns finished within the schedule	62%	68%	58%
Late inbound that left 15+ minutes late	80%	72%	82%
On-time inbound that left 15+ minutes late	9%	11%	—

The last column is the network’s rate at the turn lengths scheduled at ABQ, band by band from under 30 minutes to 3 to 6 hours. A turn finishes within the schedule when the aircraft spent no more time on the ground than the schedule gave it.

A turn pairs an aircraft’s landing at ABQ with its next departure from it by tail number; the aircraft is never named. These 52,708 turns are 69% of the flights that left ABQ in the period; the rest are an aircraft’s first flight after a long stay, flights without a usable inbound, and cancelled flights. Ground time runs from the gate. Turns under 30 minutes are kept, but most leave late even after an on-time landing. Airlines set their own turn schedules, so this describes the airlines that fly at ABQ and does not rate the airport.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS flight records · July 2023 – July 2026 · Airports side by side: Where a Late Aircraft Gets Its Time Back.

What sets ABQ apart

Where ABQ’s hours, months, airlines and taxi time differ most from the other airports, July 2023 – July 2026.

Flights scheduled to leave ABQ at 7 PM arrive on time 75.9% of the time, 7.3 points better than the 68.6% for that hour at the other airports.

11 PM is where ABQ falls furthest behind the rest: 60.2% of its 11 PM departures arrive on time, 18.9 points below the 79.1% for that hour elsewhere.

July treats ABQ better than it treats the rest of the country: 77.5% on time against 70.1% elsewhere, 7.4 points ahead.

Delta Air Lines does better out of ABQ than anywhere else it flies: 91.0% on time here, 82.1% on its other departures, 8.9 points apart.

JetBlue’s departures from ABQ arrive on time 62.4% of the time, 10.1 points worse than the 72.5% the same airline manages at its other airports.

Taxi-out at ABQ averages 14.5 minutes, 4.2 minutes less than the 18.7 minutes elsewhere.

ABQ against the other airports

July 2023 – July 2026

Where ABQ differs most from the other covered airports, with the flights behind each figure
Measure	ABQ	Elsewhere	Gap	Flights behind it
Hour: 7 PM departures	75.9%	68.6%	+7.3 pts	2,953 here, 1,010,586 elsewhere
Hour: 11 PM departures	60.2%	79.1%	−18.9 pts	518 here, 173,537 elsewhere
Month: July	77.5%	70.1%	+7.4 pts	8,612 here, 1,977,871 elsewhere
Airline: Delta Air Lines	91.0%	82.1%	+8.9 pts	4,239 here, 3,097,886 elsewhere
Airline: JetBlue	62.4%	72.5%	−10.1 pts	599 here, 725,715 elsewhere
Taxi-out: Departures	14.5 min	18.7 min	−4.2 min	75,409 here, 17,554,700 elsewhere

"Elsewhere" is every other covered airport together, taken from the same aggregates as this page with ABQ’s own flights removed (for airlines, that airline’s flights from all its other airports). Hours, months and airlines appear only where both sides have at least 120 completed flights (airlines 500) and the gap is at least 2 points and 2 standard errors; only the largest gap in each direction is shown. The taxi figure is weighted by departures and has no error estimate, so it appears from 2 minutes.

Best time to fly from ABQ

On-time arrival rate by scheduled local departure time: each weekday and hour, and averaged over the week.

Flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 92.0% of the time, against 64.5% for 9 PM–5 AM departures — a gap of 27.5 percentage points.

By day and hour

On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time.

Sunday 5–6 AM was the most reliable slot at ABQ (96.2% on time, 752 flights) and Sunday 5–6 PM the least (65.2%, 582 flights).

Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 8.0 points from the airport-wide rate, weekday averages 2.1 points.

On-time arrival rate at ABQ by weekday and scheduled departure hour, local time. Each button reads out one slot.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
5 AM–6 AM
6 AM–7 AM
7 AM–8 AM
8 AM–9 AM
9 AM–10 AM
10 AM–11 AM
11 AM–12 PM
12 PM–1 PM
1 PM–2 PM
2 PM–3 PM
3 PM–4 PM
4 PM–5 PM
5 PM–6 PM
6 PM–7 PM
7 PM–8 PM
8 PM–9 PM
9 PM–10 PM

On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time

50–59
60–69
70–79
80–89
90–99

Fewer than 120 flights, not scored
Most reliable slot
Least reliable slot

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · On time is arrival within 15 minutes of schedule. Cells round to whole percentages; the table shows one decimal.

Best and worst slots are named only among slots with 500+ flights, and only when the gap is larger than sampling error. Departures before 5 AM and after 10 PM (774 flights) are not drawn: no slot in those hours has enough flights to score.

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On-time arrival rate (%) with flights beneath, by scheduled departure hour and weekday at ABQ. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
5 AM–6 AM	95.0% on time735 flights	94.4% on time511 flights	95.0% on time499 flights	94.1% on time731 flights	94.0% on time758 flights	94.1% on time669 flights	96.2% on time752 flights
6 AM–7 AM	92.5% on time1,231 flights	93.7% on time1,172 flights	93.6% on time1,185 flights	92.5% on time1,233 flights	92.3% on time1,227 flights	92.2% on time1,203 flights	92.3% on time1,191 flights
7 AM–8 AM	92.5% on time886 flights	92.8% on time971 flights	92.5% on time966 flights	89.5% on time871 flights	91.3% on time887 flights	90.6% on time853 flights	91.5% on time926 flights
8 AM–9 AM	89.5% on time582 flights	89.3% on time661 flights	89.2% on time667 flights	88.1% on time577 flights	85.7% on time564 flights	85.5% on time592 flights	87.9% on time525 flights
9 AM–10 AM	88.8% on time332 flights	90.5% on time211 flights	91.0% on time211 flights	89.0% on time322 flights	88.5% on time352 flights	90.6% on time299 flights	87.6% on time254 flights
10 AM–11 AM	85.8% on time737 flights	89.6% on time680 flights	87.0% on time683 flights	86.0% on time737 flights	86.1% on time739 flights	89.8% on time663 flights	86.2% on time739 flights
11 AM–12 PM	84.4% on time726 flights	88.3% on time785 flights	89.3% on time789 flights	85.9% on time736 flights	86.8% on time729 flights	86.1% on time591 flights	87.7% on time737 flights
12 PM–1 PM	85.9% on time1,069 flights	88.9% on time1,041 flights	87.0% on time1,023 flights	84.5% on time1,059 flights	82.8% on time1,069 flights	84.3% on time996 flights	82.5% on time1,065 flights
1 PM–2 PM	76.5% on time844 flights	80.4% on time727 flights	82.4% on time726 flights	80.5% on time838 flights	76.3% on time847 flights	80.0% on time626 flights	78.5% on time734 flights
2 PM–3 PM	74.4% on time646 flights	81.6% on time653 flights	82.0% on time670 flights	68.4% on time647 flights	72.4% on time645 flights	77.6% on time531 flights	78.4% on time571 flights
3 PM–4 PM	75.3% on time565 flights	82.5% on time644 flights	78.6% on time638 flights	79.6% on time558 flights	75.5% on time574 flights	79.0% on time612 flights	73.7% on time605 flights
4 PM–5 PM	73.5% on time700 flights	74.7% on time602 flights	76.1% on time627 flights	69.6% on time696 flights	68.4% on time687 flights	72.9% on time461 flights	68.7% on time670 flights
5 PM–6 PM	72.5% on time549 flights	79.5% on time556 flights	78.7% on time552 flights	71.2% on time540 flights	69.3% on time550 flights	77.7% on time472 flights	65.2% on time582 flights
6 PM–7 PM	75.5% on time847 flights	81.7% on time667 flights	81.5% on time689 flights	70.5% on time847 flights	70.4% on time853 flights	76.3% on time478 flights	71.3% on time793 flights
7 PM–8 PM	74.9% on time434 flights	81.6% on time410 flights	77.9% on time423 flights	76.5% on time433 flights	74.3% on time433 flights	79.0% on time258 flights	70.5% on time591 flights
8 PM–9 PM	70.9% on time291 flights	95 flights, too few to score	90 flights, too few to score	65.0% on time295 flights	63.4% on time305 flights	102 flights, too few to score	65.7% on time237 flights
9 PM–10 PM	101 flights, too few to score	32 flights, too few to score	33 flights, too few to score	104 flights, too few to score	109 flights, too few to score	25 flights, too few to score	51.7% on time120 flights

By departure window

All days combined

5–9 AM92.0%

9 AM–12 PM87.4%

12–3 PM81.0%

3–6 PM74.3%

6–9 PM74.1%

9 PM–5 AM64.5%

By departure hour

All days combined

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Buckets with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.

What to expect at ABQ

How busy the airport is through the day, from scheduled departure volume.

Departures a day

67

Average across the analysis period

Busiest hour

6 AM

About 7 departures

Typical taxi-out

14.5 min

Pushback to wheels-up, on departure

Typical taxi-in

6.0 min

Touchdown to gate, on arrival

Scheduled departures by hour

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

The busiest hour is 6 AM, with about 7 departures a day, against roughly 0 at 9 PM. That peak is also more punctual than a typical hour here: early banks fly aircraft that spent the night on the ground rather than ones inheriting the day’s delays.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Taxi-out runs from gate to wheels-up, averaged over departures and weighted by hour. Taxi-in runs from touchdown to gate.

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon82.7%

Tue86.3%

Wed85.7%

Thu81.6%

Fri80.9%

Sat84.5%

Sun81.2%

Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Friday the least, a gap of 5.4 percentage points.

By month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

July is historically the weakest month and February the strongest, a spread of 9.5 percentage points.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Airlines at ABQ

Departure performance by operating carrier. Regional flights are reported by the carrier that operated them, not by the mainline brand.

Airlines at ABQ
Carrier	Departures	On time	Cancelled	Median delay
Southwest Airlines WN	36,429	81.5%	0.59%	-5 min
SkyWest Airlines OO	14,435	88.5%	0.37%	-10 min
American Airlines AA	9,004	79.1%	2.07%	-8 min
United Airlines UA	5,949	85.2%	0.97%	-9 min
Delta Air Lines DL	4,292	91.0%	0.96%	-13 min
Envoy Air MQ	2,725	82.3%	1.10%	-7 min
Alaska Airlines AS	1,606	79.9%	0.62%	-6 min
Spirit Airlines NK	836	78.7%	1.08%	-8 min
JetBlue B6	624	62.4%	3.69%	2 min

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Carriers with fewer than 500 departures are not listed.

Routes from ABQ

Ranked by FlyerIntel Route Reliability Score.

Most reliable

PHXPhoenix77

Least reliable

PHXPhoenix77

Busiest routes

Busiest routes from ABQ
Destination	Flights	On time	Score
ABQ → PHX Phoenix	10,123	82.7%	77

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Only routes with at least 10,000 flights are ranked.

See all 2 routes to and from ABQ →

Reliability over time

On-time arrival rate for departures, by month.

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25

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Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), departures from ABQ arrived on time 83.4% of the time, against 84.0% in the 12 months before — broadly unchanged.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Data and sources

Historical statistics

Every historical figure on this page is calculated by FlyerIntel from US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics on-time performance records covering July 2023 – July 2026, comprising 76,013 departures from ABQ. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule.

Full methodology · All data sources

Analysis last recomputed September 26, 2026

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Latest observation for ABQ: METAR KABQ 180752Z 00000KT 10SM SCT160 09/M07 A3036 RMK AO2 SLP244 T00941067 $ (issued 07:52 UTC).