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Karratha Airport
Karratha · KTA · AU

How reliable is Karratha Airport?

Flights from KTA avoided significant airline-controlled delay in 75% of 14,843 flights in official BITRE history. Here’s the full picture before you book.

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Reliability score

on-time, cancellations & delays

IATA / ICAO
KTA · YPKA
Time zone
Australia/Perth
Coordinates
-20.71, 116.77

Origin-airport operations

What the airline-controlled delay record at KTA looks like

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Avoided 15+ min controlled delay

across 14,843 flights

75%
Controlled-delay record
avoided 15+ min airline-controlled delay
2.9%
Cancellation rate
of scheduled departures
0 min
Avg. arrival delay
across delayed flights
14,843
Flights analyzed
high confidence

Source: BITRE. Origin-grouped, cause-attributed operational history; it is not a direct departure-punctuality measure or a guarantee for any flight.

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Weather by month

Weather history isn’t available for KTA yet

PlaneSane shows month-by-month airport weather once enough historical METAR/IEM observations are loaded for the airport. This does not mean the airport has no weather data forever; it means the current climatology table has no monthly coverage for Karratha Airport.

The read on KTA

What the numbers say about flying through Karratha Airport

Across official performance history, flights from Karratha avoided significant airline-controlled delay about 75% of the time over 14,843 flights. That's a respectable but unspectacular operational record. Pair it with an elevated cancellation rate of 2.9% — worth weighing alongside the on-time figure. When a departure does run late, the typical delay is around 0 minutes.

None of this guarantees your specific flight — it’s the backdrop. To turn it into a booking, score real flights to Karratha, read how we weigh it all in how the PlaneSane Score works, and brush up with how to pick a reliable flight and avoiding weather delays.

Common questions about KTA

How reliable is Karratha Airport (KTA)?
Flights from Karratha avoided significant airline-controlled delay roughly 75% of the time across 14,843 flights of official history — a respectable but unspectacular operational record. The cancellation rate runs about 2.9%. It's advisory context, not a guarantee for any single flight.

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