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ATL to BMI flight delays

Atlanta, GA (ATL) Bloomington/Normal, IL (BMI) · 533 miles

510 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

83.3%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

0.98%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

113 min

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

19 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Endeavor Air arrived on time 15 points more often than SkyWest Airlines over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.

The season swings this route hard. In October it ran 38.1 points more punctual than in July — a difference bigger than the one between the best and worst airlines on most routes. If the date is flexible, it is worth more than the carrier.

The shape of the lateness matters here. Flights on this route are not late often, but when they are late they are late by about 113 minutes — long enough to lose a connection or an evening. The on-time percentage looks reassuring and understates the consequence of being on the wrong flight.

This is a thin route — 510 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over July 2024 – July 2026, Endeavor Air arrived on time most often on ATL to BMI. SkyWest Airlines was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in October and worst in July.

Every airline on ATL to BMI

Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.

Airline Flights On time Cancelled Avg delay Grade
Endeavor Air 367 87.53% 1.36% 88 min B
SkyWest Airlines 143 72.54% 0% 141 min D

Month by month

Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.

Jul 2024 peak 95 Sep 2025
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Atlanta to Bloomington/Normal usually delayed?

83.3% of flights on the ATL to BMI route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.

Which airline is most on time from Atlanta to Bloomington/Normal?

Endeavor Air, at 87.53% on time across 367 flights. The least punctual on the route was SkyWest Airlines at 72.54%.

How often are ATL to BMI flights cancelled?

0.98% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 10 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

What is the best month to fly Atlanta to Bloomington/Normal?

October, when 95.2% of flights arrived on time. The worst was July at 57.1%.

When ATL to BMI flights are late, how late are they?

About 113 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.

What these figures do and do not tell you

Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on ATL to BMI during July 2024 – July 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.

A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.

Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →