El Paso International in March 2024

80.4%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,322 domestic departures from El Paso International (ELP). 80.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.5% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so ELP departures were 1.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at ELP that month were on time 75.3% of the time (1,323 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, air carrier 36% and national aviation system 12%.

On time 80.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.5%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from ELP in March 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

March 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	ELP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	80.4%	—	79.0%	78.5%
Arrived on time	80.5%	—	80.1%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.8%	—	1.1%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.7 min	—	15.3 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	44	—	45	19,726
Scheduled departures	1,322	—	16,369	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	722	55%	79.5%	4.4 min	0.7%
AA American Airlines	239	18%	75.7%	21.0 min	0.8%
OO SkyWest Airlines	117	9%	91.5%	-3.9 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	98	7%	82.7%	6.4 min	1.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	62	5%	93.5%	-1.2 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	44	3%	65.9%	32.1 min	4.5%
UA United Airlines	31	2%	83.9%	-1.2 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	9	1%	88.9%	10.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ELP–PHX	El Paso to Phoenix	225	82.7%	7.1 min	0.0%
ELP–DFW	El Paso to Dallas/Fort Worth	208	70.7%	24.6 min	1.4%
ELP–DAL	El Paso to Dallas	143	81.8%	4.5 min	0.0%
ELP–DEN	El Paso to Denver	130	81.5%	8.4 min	2.3%
ELP–LAS	El Paso to Las Vegas	116	71.6%	11.2 min	0.9%
ELP–HOU	El Paso to Houston	91	82.4%	1.0 min	0.0%
ELP–LAX	El Paso to Los Angeles	91	90.1%	-6.5 min	0.0%
ELP–AUS	El Paso to Austin	82	90.2%	-0.4 min	0.0%
ELP–ATL	El Paso to Atlanta	62	93.5%	-1.2 min	0.0%
ELP–SAT	El Paso to San Antonio	61	80.3%	0.8 min	0.0%
ELP–ORD	El Paso to Chicago	31	93.5%	-4.2 min	0.0%
ELP–SAN	El Paso to San Diego	28	50.0%	17.9 min	3.6%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	35.6%	32.1%	6,078
Late-arriving aircraft	47.2%	42.1%	8,040
National Aviation System	11.8%	21.4%	2,017
Extreme weather	5.4%	4.2%	915
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

17,050 delay minutes on 244 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 March 2024?

80.4% of 1,322 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 2023 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 March 2024; 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.