On-Time Report

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Airport month · July 2024

Palm Beach International in July 2024

67.7%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 July 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 2,057 domestic departures from Palm Beach International (PBI). 67.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 65.5% reached their destination on time; 3.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 68.5% of flights departed on time and 68.1% arrived on time, so PBI departures were 0.8 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PBI that month were on time 63.6% of the time (2,055 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 21%.

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

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

MeasureJul 2024Year earlierPBI, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jul 2024
Departed on time67.7%—72.6%68.5%
Arrived on time65.5%—72.9%68.1%
Cancelled3.5%—2.5%2.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)29.1 min—21.7 min24.9 min
Scheduled departures a day69—8621,154
Scheduled departures2,057—31,406634,613

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DL Delta Air Lines60129%64.2%24.7 min7.3%
B6 JetBlue Airways57328%68.6%20.5 min0.9%
AA American Airlines42621%62.0%28.8 min2.3%
WN Southwest Airlines1849%72.8%15.2 min0.5%
UA United Airlines1779%56.5%34.0 min3.4%
G4 Allegiant Air342%79.4%9.4 min2.9%
F9 Frontier Airlines312%51.6%20.9 min6.5%
NK Spirit Airlines312%87.1%-8.0 min6.5%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PBI–ATLWest Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Atlanta36467.6%25.2 min6.9%
PBI–EWRWest Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Newark23957.3%34.3 min2.9%
PBI–LGAWest Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York21264.2%22.1 min4.2%
PBI–JFKWest Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York15560.0%26.1 min4.5%
PBI–CLTWest Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Charlotte15063.3%34.9 min3.3%
PBI–BOSWest Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Boston13964.7%17.8 min2.2%
PBI–HPNWest Palm Beach/Palm Beach to White Plains12468.5%22.0 min0.8%
PBI–DCAWest Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Washington11872.0%5.3 min0.8%
PBI–PHLWest Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Philadelphia11065.5%29.9 min2.7%
PBI–BWIWest Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Baltimore9271.7%16.5 min0.0%
PBI–DFWWest Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Dallas/Fort Worth9159.3%24.8 min1.1%
PBI–ISPWest Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Islip7468.9%15.8 min4.1%

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), July 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jul 2024Minutes
Air carrier29.4%36.6%17,120
Late-arriving aircraft48.3%42.7%28,139
National Aviation System21.2%16.0%12,351
Extreme weather1.0%4.6%593
Security0.1%0.1%60
58,263 delay minutes on 622 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left PBI on time in July 2024?

67.7% of 2,057 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 65.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 68.5% and 68.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

July 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 July 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.