Airport month record

MKEMAR

Milwaukee Mitchell International in March 2026

Departures: 2,626
Month: March 2026
National, same month: 75.7%
Carriers: 9

Historical statistics for March 2026, not live status or a forecast for this year’s March. For today’s conditions at MKE, see live FAA status.

MKE in March carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 6.3% of scheduled flights never operate, against 2.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 2,626 flights, of which Southwest Airlines flew 999 at 75.9% on time.

On time

74.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,455 completed departures

Avg delay

98 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

6.25%

Nationally in March: 2.90%

Whole year

78.1%

MKE across all twelve months

These figures cover 2,626 departures from Milwaukee Mitchell International in March 2026. On time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the DOT's threshold, and the national comparison uses every US departure in the same month rather than the whole year.

Against the year

March next to MKE's other months

Against MKE's own year, March ran 4 points worse than the twelve-month rate of 78.1%, which makes it number ten of twelve months, best first. Cancellations are where March stands out: 6.25% of scheduled departures were called off, 2.6 times the airport's rate across the year. Either side of it, February ran 82.7% on time and April 80.7%, so a trip moved by a few weeks would have landed in a better stretch.

MKE month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
September 2025	2,315	83.0%	64 min	0.56%	B+
October 2025	2,564	79.6%	79 min	0.31%	B+
November 2025	2,230	79.2%	81 min	4.26%	B−
December 2025	2,273	70.1%	92 min	1.89%	C
January 2026	2,077	73.8%	78 min	3.71%	C−
February 2026	2,033	82.7%	79 min	1.33%	B
March 2026 (this page)	2,626	74.3%	98 min	6.25%	C−
April 2026	2,588	80.7%	86 min	2.20%	B
May 2026	2,735	80.6%	65 min	0.73%	B+
June 2026	2,657	79.2%	72 min	2.11%	B
July 2026	2,759	76.5%	82 min	2.97%	B
August 2026	2,715	77.2%	85 min	2.62%	B

Departure window

The best time of day to leave MKE in March

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 25 points, against 11 points between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am759 flights85.6%
8am–11am451 flights75.2%
11am–2pm474 flights77.8%
2pm–5pm406 flights65.5%
5pm–8pm429 flights61.0%
8pm–5am107 flights62.4%

Scale runs 55% to 90%.

The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 61.0% on time, against 85.6% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 759 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 77.5% on time and Saturday the weakest at 69.9%, a spread of 8 points.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at MKE in March

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Southwest Airlines arrives on time 75.9% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 64.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 622 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at MKE in March 2026
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	999	75.9%	64 min	4.00%	B−
SkyWest Airlines	622	64.6%	121 min	8.68%	D−
Delta Air Linesthin sample	259	86.8%	79 min	6.18%	A−
American Airlinesthin sample	219	78.4%	194 min	4.11%	B−
Republic Airwaysthin sample	214	76.4%	87 min	10.28%	B−
PSA Airlinesthin sample	92	72.4%	110 min	17.39%	C−
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	82	73.1%	105 min	4.88%	C−
United Airlinesthin sample	62	79.0%	108 min	0.00%	B+
Envoy Airthin sample	51	75.5%	79 min	3.92%	B−

SkyWest Airlines cancels 8.7% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of MKE in March

Routes from MKE in March 2026
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
MKE to ORD · Chicago	451	64.6%	114 min	10.42%	D−
MKE to ATL · Atlantathin sample	182	88.2%	92 min	6.59%	A−
MKE to MCO · Orlandothin sample	178	71.9%	81 min	3.93%	C−
MKE to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	165	78.0%	68 min	3.64%	B−
MKE to DEN · Denverthin sample	159	78.7%	74 min	2.52%	B
MKE to DTW · Detroitthin sample	141	66.2%	151 min	4.96%	C−
MKE to MSP · Minneapolisthin sample	117	72.7%	93 min	5.98%	C−
MKE to DCA · Washingtonthin sample	115	63.7%	85 min	11.30%	D−
MKE to LGA · New Yorkthin sample	107	63.7%	100 min	14.95%	D−
MKE to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	102	85.6%	50 min	4.90%	A−
MKE to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	93	78.4%	261 min	4.30%	B−
MKE to CLT · Charlottethin sample	85	81.0%	185 min	5.88%	B−
MKE to TPA · Tampathin sample	85	68.8%	73 min	5.88%	C−
MKE to BNA · Nashvillethin sample	83	79.7%	32 min	4.82%	B−
MKE to RSW · Fort Myersthin sample	68	76.6%	72 min	4.41%	B−
MKE to EWR · Newarkthin sample	58	79.2%	41 min	6.90%	B−
MKE to BWI · Baltimorethin sample	56	85.5%	126 min	1.79%	A
MKE to STL · St. Louisthin sample	54	78.4%	39 min	5.56%	B−
MKE to MDW · Chicagothin sample	54	57.1%	78 min	7.41%	D−
MKE to BOS · Bostonthin sample	48	97.8%	173 min	4.17%	A−
MKE to MIA · Miamithin sample	39	81.6%	39 min	2.56%	B
MKE to DAL · Dallasthin sample	31	80.6%	53 min	0.00%	B+
MKE to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	31	75.9%	34 min	6.45%	B−

Delay causes

What held MKE up in March

Carrier accounts for 44% of the 61,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.

Carrier
44%
Late-arriving aircraft
24%
National Airspace System
18%
Extreme weather
14%
Security
0%

Extreme weather accounts for 14% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the comparison with the other months below is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 61,361 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 6.25%, against 2.90% nationally. That is about one flight in fifteen cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

11.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 9.5% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

What to do with this

Flying from MKE in March

For a March trip through MKE: plan on this being one of the airport's harder months. The 5am–8am departures held up best at 85.6% on time, and with 11.5% of arrivals an hour or more late, a connection here deserves more slack than the same trip in September would.

Milwaukee Mitchell International (MKE), the whole year
MKE in September83.0%
MKE in October79.6%
MKE in November79.2%
MKE in December70.1%
MKE in January73.8%
MKE in February82.7%
MKE in April80.7%
MKE in May80.6%
MKE in June79.2%
MKE in July76.5%
MKE in August77.2%

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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