Palm Beach International in November 2023

83.7%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 November 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 2,376 domestic departures from Palm Beach International (PBI). 83.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.3% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 86.0% of flights departed on time and 86.2% arrived on time, so PBI departures were 2.3 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PBI that month were on time 83.2% of the time (2,379 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 46%, air carrier 39% and national aviation system 14%.

On time 85.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.4%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from PBI in November 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

November 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Nov 2023	Year earlier	PBI, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2023
Departed on time	83.7%	—	72.6%	86.0%
Arrived on time	85.3%	—	72.9%	86.2%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	2.5%	0.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.8 min	—	21.7 min	9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day	79	—	86	18,793
Scheduled departures	2,376	—	31,406	563,777

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways	677	28%	80.1%	6.7 min	0.4%
DL Delta Air Lines	532	22%	92.5%	-9.0 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	475	20%	82.1%	8.3 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	272	11%	90.8%	-9.9 min	0.4%
WN Southwest Airlines	211	9%	91.5%	-3.6 min	0.5%
F9 Frontier Airlines	120	5%	78.3%	16.8 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	56	2%	87.5%	4.0 min	3.6%
G4 Allegiant Air	32	1%	56.3%	34.5 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	1	0%	100.0%	-16.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PBI–ATL	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Atlanta	302	96.0%	-9.8 min	0.0%
PBI–EWR	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Newark	259	89.6%	-9.0 min	0.4%
PBI–LGA	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York	256	83.6%	-3.2 min	0.4%
PBI–CLT	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Charlotte	195	85.1%	7.3 min	0.0%
PBI–HPN	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to White Plains	178	79.8%	2.1 min	1.1%
PBI–JFK	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York	164	83.5%	3.3 min	0.6%
PBI–BOS	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Boston	149	79.2%	17.7 min	0.0%
PBI–PHL	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Philadelphia	126	81.0%	7.5 min	0.0%
PBI–BWI	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Baltimore	116	90.5%	-2.7 min	0.9%
PBI–DCA	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Washington	114	77.2%	10.3 min	0.0%
PBI–ISP	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Islip	90	87.8%	-0.4 min	0.0%
PBI–DFW	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Dallas/Fort Worth	89	77.5%	6.6 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), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	38.9%	42.5%	11,091
Late-arriving aircraft	45.5%	37.3%	12,985
National Aviation System	13.8%	16.2%	3,931
Extreme weather	1.8%	3.7%	502
Security	0.1%	0.3%	26

28,535 delay minutes on 341 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 PBI on time in November 2023?

83.7% of 2,376 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 86.0% and 86.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 2022 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 November 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for PBI · methodology · corrections.