Brownsville South Padre Island International in January 2025

74.5%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In January 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 137 domestic departures from Brownsville South Padre Island International (BRO). 74.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 72.3% reached their destination on time; 8.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so BRO departures were 4.8 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 111 departures with 79.3% leaving on time: a change of −4.8 points, with flights up 23%.

Flights arriving at BRO that month were on time 70.8% of the time (137 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 34%, air carrier 28% and late-arriving aircraft 19%.

On time 72.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.7%
Cancelled 8.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from BRO in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2025	Jan 2024	BRO, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time	74.5%	79.3%	84.8%	79.3%
Arrived on time	72.3%	78.4%	84.0%	78.6%
Cancelled	8.0%	2.7%	2.5%	3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	27.6 min	11.5 min	11.4 min	14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	5	4	4	17,992
Scheduled departures	137	111	1,423	539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	69	50%	66.7%	30.4 min	8.7%
MQ Envoy Air	68	50%	77.9%	4.9 min	7.4%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BRO–DFW	Brownsville to Dallas/Fort Worth	137	72.3%	17.7 min	8.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	28.3%	36.2%	975
Late-arriving aircraft	19.3%	34.7%	666
National Aviation System	33.7%	19.9%	1,163
Extreme weather	18.7%	9.1%	643
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

3,447 delay minutes on 27 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left BRO on time in January 2025?

74.5% of 137 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 72.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 79.3% of 111 departures left on time and 2.7% were cancelled, against 74.5% and 8.0% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for BRO · methodology · corrections.