El Paso International in December 2025

80.7%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 December 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,470 domestic departures from El Paso International (ELP). 80.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.9% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 72.0% of flights departed on time and 71.9% arrived on time, so ELP departures were 8.7 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in December 2024, the airport had 1,548 departures with 82.0% leaving on time: a change of −1.3 points, with flights down 5%.

Flights arriving at ELP that month were on time 75.9% of the time (1,471 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 64%, air carrier 26% and national aviation system 10%.

On time 82.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.5%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2025	Dec 2024	ELP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2025
Departed on time	80.7%	82.0%	79.0%	72.0%
Arrived on time	82.9%	81.8%	80.1%	71.9%
Cancelled	0.5%	0.9%	1.1%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.1 min	15.0 min	15.3 min	21.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	49	52	45	19,410
Scheduled departures	1,470	1,548	16,369	582,304

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	808	55%	82.4%	3.1 min	0.2%
AA American Airlines	189	13%	83.6%	2.0 min	1.1%
OO SkyWest Airlines	174	12%	88.5%	1.1 min	0.6%
MQ Envoy Air	118	8%	84.7%	2.7 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	64	4%	84.4%	-0.9 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	62	4%	80.6%	14.0 min	3.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines	55	4%	67.3%	29.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
ELP–DFW	El Paso to Dallas/Fort Worth	232	82.8%	3.9 min	0.9%
ELP–PHX	El Paso to Phoenix	218	84.4%	0.0 min	0.0%
ELP–DAL	El Paso to Dallas	162	85.2%	2.3 min	0.0%
ELP–DEN	El Paso to Denver	162	82.7%	3.5 min	0.0%
ELP–LAS	El Paso to Las Vegas	114	82.5%	8.5 min	0.0%
ELP–LAX	El Paso to Los Angeles	108	81.5%	2.4 min	0.0%
ELP–HOU	El Paso to Houston	97	81.4%	4.2 min	0.0%
ELP–AUS	El Paso to Austin	91	82.4%	4.8 min	0.0%
ELP–SAT	El Paso to San Antonio	77	88.3%	-3.1 min	0.0%
ELP–ATL	El Paso to Atlanta	62	80.6%	14.0 min	3.2%
ELP–ORD	El Paso to Chicago	58	79.3%	8.2 min	1.7%
ELP–SAN	El Paso to San Diego	31	77.4%	0.5 min	3.2%

By scheduled departure hour

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

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), December 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	25.7%	33.3%	4,008
Late-arriving aircraft	63.9%	41.1%	9,981
National Aviation System	9.5%	19.1%	1,481
Extreme weather	0.9%	6.4%	140
Security	0.1%	0.2%	15

15,625 delay minutes on 242 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 December 2025?

80.7% of 1,470 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 72.0% and 71.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In December 2024, 82.0% of 1,548 departures left on time and 0.9% were cancelled, against 80.7% and 0.5% in December 2025.

Provenance

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