El Paso International in October 2023

82.4%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 1,531 domestic departures from El Paso International (ELP). 82.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.0% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so ELP departures were 1.4 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ELP that month were on time 78.1% of the time (1,531 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, national aviation system 20% and air carrier 16%.

On time 84.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.3%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from ELP in October 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

October 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	ELP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	82.4%	—	79.0%	83.8%
Arrived on time	84.0%	—	80.1%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.5%	—	1.1%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.6 min	—	15.3 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	51	—	45	19,966
Scheduled departures	1,531	—	16,369	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	803	52%	85.1%	-0.9 min	0.2%
AA American Airlines	254	17%	83.9%	2.9 min	1.6%
MQ Envoy Air	180	12%	80.0%	9.0 min	0.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines	122	8%	89.3%	-2.1 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	62	4%	95.2%	-10.7 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	48	3%	64.6%	15.5 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	31	2%	83.9%	10.3 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	22	1%	63.6%	8.4 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	9	1%	77.8%	23.6 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ELP–DFW	El Paso to Dallas/Fort Worth	238	79.4%	8.0 min	2.1%
ELP–PHX	El Paso to Phoenix	230	85.2%	1.2 min	0.0%
ELP–AUS	El Paso to Austin	177	85.9%	0.2 min	0.6%
ELP–DAL	El Paso to Dallas	151	91.4%	-3.2 min	0.0%
ELP–DEN	El Paso to Denver	137	82.5%	2.3 min	0.0%
ELP–LAX	El Paso to Los Angeles	134	84.3%	-1.1 min	0.0%
ELP–LAS	El Paso to Las Vegas	124	79.8%	3.9 min	0.0%
ELP–HOU	El Paso to Houston	89	87.6%	-4.4 min	1.1%
ELP–SAT	El Paso to San Antonio	66	78.8%	8.3 min	0.0%
ELP–ATL	El Paso to Atlanta	62	95.2%	-10.7 min	0.0%
ELP–LGB	El Paso to Long Beach	31	90.3%	-7.7 min	0.0%
ELP–ORD	El Paso to Chicago	31	83.9%	4.2 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

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

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	15.7%	41.3%	2,010
Late-arriving aircraft	53.6%	40.5%	6,843
National Aviation System	19.6%	14.4%	2,498
Extreme weather	11.1%	3.7%	1,423
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

12,774 delay minutes on 235 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 ELP on time in October 2023?

82.4% of 1,531 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for October 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for ELP · methodology · corrections.