Palm Beach International in February 2024

81.4%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 February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 2,817 domestic departures from Palm Beach International (PBI). 81.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.5% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so PBI departures were 2.6 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PBI that month were on time 80.4% of the time (2,817 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 38% and national aviation system 13%.

On time 81.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.7%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from PBI in February 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

February 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	PBI, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	81.4%	—	72.6%	84.0%
Arrived on time	81.5%	—	72.9%	83.4%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	2.5%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.4 min	—	21.7 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	94	—	86	17,307
Scheduled departures	2,817	—	31,406	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways	792	28%	74.7%	9.0 min	1.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	589	21%	85.6%	1.8 min	0.3%
AA American Airlines	555	20%	81.3%	14.8 min	0.2%
UA United Airlines	393	14%	86.8%	-3.3 min	0.3%
WN Southwest Airlines	232	8%	90.9%	-4.3 min	0.4%
F9 Frontier Airlines	160	6%	78.1%	11.3 min	1.3%
NK Spirit Airlines	58	2%	82.8%	3.1 min	3.4%
G4 Allegiant Air	36	1%	63.9%	34.0 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	2	0%	100.0%	-11.0 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	333	89.5%	-1.6 min	0.0%
PBI–EWR	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Newark	314	83.1%	-1.4 min	0.6%
PBI–LGA	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York	285	78.2%	2.1 min	2.5%
PBI–HPN	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to White Plains	202	76.7%	10.5 min	1.0%
PBI–CLT	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Charlotte	199	83.9%	12.6 min	0.0%
PBI–JFK	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York	177	72.9%	12.1 min	1.1%
PBI–BOS	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Boston	175	69.1%	15.2 min	0.0%
PBI–PHL	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Philadelphia	161	80.7%	13.8 min	1.2%
PBI–DCA	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Washington	157	78.3%	19.3 min	0.6%
PBI–ORD	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Chicago	133	89.5%	-3.6 min	0.0%
PBI–BWI	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Baltimore	116	89.7%	-2.5 min	0.0%
PBI–DFW	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Dallas/Fort Worth	108	73.1%	19.5 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), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	37.7%	35.9%	14,578
Late-arriving aircraft	49.0%	36.9%	18,936
National Aviation System	12.5%	21.7%	4,819
Extreme weather	0.8%	5.3%	308
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

38,641 delay minutes on 500 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 February 2024?

81.4% of 2,817 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 2023 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 February 2024; 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.