El Paso International in March 2025

83.5%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 March 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,495 domestic departures from El Paso International (ELP). 83.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.7% reached their destination on time; 2.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so ELP departures were 3.6 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 1,322 departures with 80.4% leaving on time: a change of +3.1 points, with flights up 13%.

Flights arriving at ELP that month were on time 78.9% of the time (1,496 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, air carrier 35% and national aviation system 13%.

On time 83.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.8%
Cancelled 2.4%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from ELP in March 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	ELP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	83.5%	80.4%	79.0%	79.9%
Arrived on time	83.7%	80.5%	80.1%	79.3%
Cancelled	2.4%	0.8%	1.1%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.1 min	14.7 min	15.3 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	50	44	45	20,029
Scheduled departures	1,495	1,322	16,369	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	772	52%	86.9%	-0.8 min	2.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines	247	17%	81.8%	8.9 min	2.8%
AA American Airlines	215	14%	74.0%	14.5 min	2.8%
MQ Envoy Air	76	5%	82.9%	-0.3 min	1.3%
UA United Airlines	62	4%	87.1%	-0.1 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	60	4%	88.3%	-5.3 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	55	4%	78.2%	21.2 min	3.6%
YX Republic Airline	8	1%	75.0%	-3.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ELP–PHX	El Paso to Phoenix	253	81.0%	4.1 min	3.2%
ELP–DFW	El Paso to Dallas/Fort Worth	248	76.2%	11.9 min	2.8%
ELP–DEN	El Paso to Denver	154	82.5%	8.5 min	1.9%
ELP–DAL	El Paso to Dallas	153	86.9%	0.6 min	3.3%
ELP–LAS	El Paso to Las Vegas	116	87.1%	-4.1 min	2.6%
ELP–LAX	El Paso to Los Angeles	93	91.4%	-2.9 min	3.2%
ELP–HOU	El Paso to Houston	91	84.6%	3.4 min	1.1%
ELP–AUS	El Paso to Austin	86	90.7%	-3.2 min	2.3%
ELP–SAT	El Paso to San Antonio	80	86.3%	1.9 min	1.3%
ELP–ORD	El Paso to Chicago	62	74.2%	4.4 min	1.6%
ELP–ATL	El Paso to Atlanta	60	88.3%	-5.3 min	0.0%
ELP–MDW	El Paso to Chicago	29	96.6%	-19.1 min	3.4%

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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	35.4%	33.0%	6,331
Late-arriving aircraft	47.8%	39.2%	8,546
National Aviation System	13.2%	21.9%	2,356
Extreme weather	3.6%	5.9%	642
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

17,875 delay minutes on 207 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 2025?

83.5% of 1,495 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 80.4% of 1,322 departures left on time and 0.8% were cancelled, against 83.5% and 2.4% in March 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for March 2025; 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.