El Paso International in April 2025

82.6%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 April 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,490 domestic departures from El Paso International (ELP). 82.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.1% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so ELP departures were 2.0 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 1,430 departures with 81.3% leaving on time: a change of +1.3 points, with flights up 4%.

Flights arriving at ELP that month were on time 78.6% of the time (1,490 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 25% and national aviation system 18%.

On time 82.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.6%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	Apr 2025	Apr 2024	ELP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time	82.6%	81.3%	79.0%	80.6%
Arrived on time	82.1%	82.4%	80.1%	79.5%
Cancelled	0.8%	0.5%	1.1%	0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.8 min	13.5 min	15.3 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	50	48	45	19,465
Scheduled departures	1,490	1,430	16,369	583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	757	51%	83.2%	2.3 min	0.9%
OO SkyWest Airlines	238	16%	89.5%	1.5 min	0.4%
AA American Airlines	231	16%	71.4%	9.1 min	1.3%
MQ Envoy Air	87	6%	80.5%	12.7 min	1.1%
DL Delta Air Lines	60	4%	93.3%	-5.4 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	60	4%	68.3%	8.3 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	51	3%	84.3%	-0.9 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	6	0%	100.0%	-18.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ELP–PHX	El Paso to Phoenix	248	83.9%	5.8 min	0.4%
ELP–DFW	El Paso to Dallas/Fort Worth	235	74.5%	10.7 min	1.7%
ELP–DEN	El Paso to Denver	148	75.7%	8.3 min	0.0%
ELP–DAL	El Paso to Dallas	144	85.4%	-2.5 min	2.8%
ELP–LAX	El Paso to Los Angeles	117	88.0%	-3.6 min	0.0%
ELP–LAS	El Paso to Las Vegas	112	90.2%	-3.8 min	0.0%
ELP–HOU	El Paso to Houston	90	76.7%	3.8 min	0.0%
ELP–AUS	El Paso to Austin	89	91.0%	-0.5 min	1.1%
ELP–SAT	El Paso to San Antonio	77	83.1%	6.2 min	1.3%
ELP–ATL	El Paso to Atlanta	60	93.3%	-5.4 min	0.0%
ELP–ORD	El Paso to Chicago	60	66.7%	19.1 min	1.7%
ELP–IAH	El Paso to Houston	30	86.7%	-1.0 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), April 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	24.5%	32.7%	4,322
Late-arriving aircraft	48.9%	39.4%	8,629
National Aviation System	17.5%	22.2%	3,080
Extreme weather	9.1%	5.5%	1,608
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

17,639 delay minutes on 248 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 April 2025?

82.6% of 1,490 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 81.3% of 1,430 departures left on time and 0.5% were cancelled, against 82.6% and 0.8% in April 2025.

Provenance

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