Best time to fly out of Purdue University (LAF)
Purdue University 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.
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Not enough flights to say — fewer than 100 in this window.
The year at LAF
Month by month, Purdue University 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 | 49 |
| February | Not enough flights to say | 44 |
| March | Not enough flights to say | 49 |
| April | Not enough flights to say | 47 |
| May | Not enough flights to say | 49 |
| June | Not enough flights to say | 43 |
| July | Not enough flights to say | 0 |
| August | Not enough flights to say | 42 |
| September | Not enough flights to say | 47 |
| October | Not enough flights to say | 49 |
| November | Not enough flights to say | 46 |
| December | Not enough flights to say | 52 |
Airlines at LAF
Every airline with at least 100 departures from LAF, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 78.5% | 157 min | 2.7% | 517 |
What delays out of LAF were put down to
Airlines file a reason with every arrival running 15 minutes late or more. Across 128 flights that departed LAF and ran 15 minutes late or more, the delay minutes break down with 41.3% put down to late-arriving aircraft and 36.7% to airline operations.
- Late-arriving aircraft 41.3%
- Airline operations 36.7%
- Air traffic & airport volume 13.7%
- Severe weather 8.3%
- Security 0%
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 LAF
Of 518 scheduled arrivals into LAF, 65.4% reached the gate less than 15 minutes behind schedule. Of the 156 arrivals that ran late, 43.6% 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 LAF
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.
- ORD 74.5% on time · 517 flights
LAF in one number
Purdue University (LAF)
Rank 347 of 363 US airports by departures. Steadiest stretch of the day: —. Hardest month: —.
Questions about LAF
- How often are flights cancelled at LAF?
- 2.7% 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.