Major U.S. air carriers - late arrivals 2000-2017

The data describes the number of late arrivals of major U.S. air carriers from 2000 to 2017. In 2017, over one million arrivals of flight operations of major U.S. air carriers were late. Late arrivals are strongly seasonal and are affected by weather and heavy demand in winter and summer months. The term late is defined as 15 minutes after the scheduled arrival time.