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Airport month · October 2025
El Paso International in October 2025
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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,478 domestic departures from El Paso International (ELP). 82.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.5% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so ELP departures were 2.4 points above the national departure figure.
A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 1,613 departures with 89.6% leaving on time: a change of −7.2 points, with flights down 8%.
Flights arriving at ELP that month were on time 77.6% of the time (1,479 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, air carrier 31% and national aviation system 20%.
- On time 82.5%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.6%
- Cancelled 0.4%
- Diverted 0.5%
October 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | Oct 2025 | Oct 2024 | ELP, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, Oct 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 82.4% | 89.6% | 79.0% | 80.0% |
| Arrived on time | 82.5% | 89.0% | 80.1% | 79.1% |
| Cancelled | 0.4% | 0.2% | 1.1% | 0.5% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 12.2 min | 7.9 min | 15.3 min | 13.9 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 49 | 54 | 45 | 20,195 |
| Scheduled departures | 1,478 | 1,613 | 16,369 | 605,844 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WN Southwest Airlines | 797 | 54% | 82.3% | 3.5 min | 0.3% |
| AA American Airlines | 208 | 14% | 77.9% | 5.9 min | 1.4% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 203 | 14% | 86.2% | 3.3 min | 0.0% |
| MQ Envoy Air | 84 | 6% | 89.3% | 2.3 min | 0.0% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 62 | 4% | 88.7% | 5.6 min | 0.0% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 62 | 4% | 75.8% | 17.0 min | 1.6% |
| UA United Airlines | 62 | 4% | 80.6% | 7.6 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELP–PHX | El Paso to Phoenix | 236 | 85.2% | 1.7 min | 0.0% |
| ELP–DFW | El Paso to Dallas/Fort Worth | 235 | 77.0% | 9.5 min | 1.7% |
| ELP–DEN | El Paso to Denver | 160 | 81.3% | 10.5 min | 0.0% |
| ELP–DAL | El Paso to Dallas | 150 | 81.3% | 0.4 min | 1.3% |
| ELP–LAS | El Paso to Las Vegas | 114 | 81.6% | 2.8 min | 0.0% |
| ELP–LAX | El Paso to Los Angeles | 114 | 86.8% | 0.2 min | 0.0% |
| ELP–HOU | El Paso to Houston | 91 | 81.3% | 5.9 min | 0.0% |
| ELP–AUS | El Paso to Austin | 88 | 90.9% | 0.6 min | 0.0% |
| ELP–SAT | El Paso to San Antonio | 75 | 84.0% | 3.4 min | 0.0% |
| ELP–ATL | El Paso to Atlanta | 62 | 88.7% | 5.6 min | 0.0% |
| ELP–ORD | El Paso to Chicago | 62 | 87.1% | 1.4 min | 0.0% |
| ELP–MDW | El Paso to Chicago | 31 | 80.6% | 3.1 min | 0.0% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left ELP on time in October 2025?
82.4% of 1,478 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
In October 2024, 89.6% of 1,613 departures left on time and 0.2% were cancelled, against 82.4% and 0.4% in October 2025.
Provenance
Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for October 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.