Best time to fly out of Fayetteville - Grannis (FAY)
Fayetteville - Grannis did not fly enough departures in this window to split the day into time bands. Not enough flights to say. A percentage needs at least 100 flights behind it before it is worth printing; anything thinner is noise wearing a decimal point. These are historical odds, not forecasts. The records say what happened on this schedule over three years; they know nothing about tomorrow’s thunderstorm.
Data through June 2026 · Bureau of Transportation Statistics
On-time rate by hour and day
On this page, “on time” means a departure that pushed back less than 15 minutes behind its scheduled time — the Bureau of Transportation Statistics definition, and the one airlines are held to.
| Departure time | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before 6am | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 6–8am | 93 | 92 | 95 | 94 | 93 | 91 | 89 |
| 8–10am | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 10am–12pm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 12–2pm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2–4pm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 4–6pm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 6–8pm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 8–10pm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 10pm–12am | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Not enough flights to say — fewer than 100 in this window.
The year at FAY
May was the hard month at FAY: 73.3% of departures left on time, across 122 flights. November was the easy one at 91.9%. Each month pools three years of that month, so a single bad week does not decide it.
| Month | Share departures that left on time | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| January | 82.1% | 200 |
| February | 87.4% | 146 |
| March | 84.8% | 125 |
| April | Not enough flights to say | 90 |
| May | 73.3% | 122 |
| June | 82.3% | 197 |
| July | 77.8% | 304 |
| August | 84.5% | 270 |
| September | 86.9% | 362 |
| October | 88.3% | 335 |
| November | 91.9% | 273 |
| December | 84.1% | 258 |
Airlines at FAY
Every airline with at least 100 departures from FAY, busiest first. These are that airline’s departures from this airport only — its record across the country sits on its own page.
| Airline | Left on time | Typical delay | Cancelled | Departures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlines | 87.1% | 108 min | 2.3% | 1,063 |
| Delta Air Lines | 87.4% | 113 min | 2.2% | 591 |
| Endeavor Air | 83.5% | 120 min | 0.2% | 510 |
| SkyWest Airlines | 75.2% | 107 min | 1.3% | 400 |
| Envoy Air | 87.3% | — | 0% | 118 |
A dash under typical delay means fewer than 30 of that airline’s departures ran 15 minutes late or more — too few to average.
What delays out of FAY were put down to
Airlines file a reason with every arrival running 15 minutes late or more. Across 417 flights that departed FAY and ran 15 minutes late or more, the delay minutes break down with 57.8% put down to airline operations and 20.2% to late-arriving aircraft.
- Late-arriving aircraft 20.2%
- Airline operations 57.8%
- Air traffic & airport volume 8.8%
- Severe weather 13.2%
- Security 0.1%
Late-arriving aircraft is the knock-on category: the plane came in late, so it went out late again. It is why a 7am problem in Newark is still a problem in Denver at dinnertime, and why it is usually the biggest slice on the bar.
If you are connecting through FAY
Of 2,681 scheduled arrivals into FAY, 81% reached the gate less than 15 minutes behind schedule. Of the 459 arrivals that ran late, 48.6% were no more than 45 minutes behind — which is the difference between a tight connection and a new boarding pass.
Work out a specific layover — pick the airport and the minutes you have, and the tool reads the same arrival records back as a share.
Busiest routes out of FAY
Ranked by flights, with the share that arrived on time at the far end. Where a route carries enough flights for a page of its own the chip goes there; otherwise it goes to the destination airport.
FAY in one number
Fayetteville - Grannis (FAY)
Rank 241 of 363 US airports by departures. Steadiest stretch of the day: 6–8am. Hardest month: May.
Questions about FAY
- What is the worst month to fly out of FAY?
- May: 73.3% of the departures that flew left on time, with 122 scheduled. November was the other end of the year at 91.9%. Each figure pools three years of that calendar month.
- Which airline is most on time at FAY?
- Delta Air Lines — 87.4% of its 591 departures from FAY left on time. SkyWest Airlines sat at the other end at 75.2% over 400 flights. Only airlines with at least 100 departures here are ranked.
- How often are flights cancelled at FAY?
- 1.6% of scheduled departures were cancelled over July 2023 through June 2026. Cancellations are counted against everything scheduled, not against everything that flew — a rate that looks small still adds up to real people in a rebooking line.