Best time to fly out of Nome (OME)
Nome 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 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 8–10am | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 10am–12pm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 12–2pm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2–4pm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 4–6pm | 77 | 83 | 83 | 81 | 81 | 84 | 79 |
| 6–8pm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 8–10pm | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 10pm–12am | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Not enough flights to say — fewer than 100 in this window.
The year at OME
Month by month, Nome is too thin to read. Not enough flights to say — fewer than 100 in this window.
| Month | Share departures that left on time | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| January | Not enough flights to say | 90 |
| February | Not enough flights to say | 85 |
| March | Not enough flights to say | 97 |
| April | Not enough flights to say | 94 |
| May | 94% | 100 |
| June | Not enough flights to say | 90 |
| July | Not enough flights to say | 96 |
| August | Not enough flights to say | 96 |
| September | Not enough flights to say | 93 |
| October | Not enough flights to say | 94 |
| November | Not enough flights to say | 86 |
| December | Not enough flights to say | 88 |
Airlines at OME
Every airline with at least 100 departures from OME, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airlines | 81.5% | 47 min | 3.2% | 1,109 |
What delays out of OME were put down to
Airlines file a reason with every arrival running 15 minutes late or more. Across 196 flights that departed OME and ran 15 minutes late or more, the delay minutes break down with 70.6% put down to late-arriving aircraft and 14.4% to airline operations.
- Late-arriving aircraft 70.6%
- Airline operations 14.4%
- Air traffic & airport volume 11.2%
- Severe weather 1.7%
- Security 2%
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 OME
Of 1,108 scheduled arrivals into OME, 76.3% reached the gate less than 15 minutes behind schedule. Of the 232 arrivals that ran late, 67.7% 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 OME
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.
OME in one number
Nome (OME)
Rank 326 of 363 US airports by departures. Steadiest stretch of the day: 4–6pm. Hardest month: May.
Questions about OME
- How often are flights cancelled at OME?
- 3.2% 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.