Palm Beach International in October 2025

77.6%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 2,268 domestic departures from Palm Beach International (PBI). 77.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.3% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so PBI departures were 2.4 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 2,123 departures with 82.6% leaving on time: a change of −5.0 points, with flights up 7%.

Flights arriving at PBI that month were on time 74.7% of the time (2,272 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, national aviation system 31% and air carrier 20%.

On time 77.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.6%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from PBI in October 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Oct 2025	Oct 2024	PBI, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time	77.6%	82.6%	72.6%	80.0%
Arrived on time	77.3%	84.3%	72.9%	79.1%
Cancelled	0.9%	3.9%	2.5%	0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	17.3 min	10.5 min	21.7 min	13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	76	71	86	20,195
Scheduled departures	2,268	2,123	31,406	605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways	618	27%	74.4%	10.3 min	1.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	538	24%	79.7%	5.0 min	0.9%
AA American Airlines	444	20%	79.5%	9.4 min	0.2%
UA United Airlines	277	12%	70.0%	16.7 min	1.4%
WN Southwest Airlines	246	11%	85.0%	-0.1 min	0.4%
YX Republic Airline	51	2%	66.7%	34.1 min	2.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	41	2%	82.9%	3.2 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	36	2%	80.6%	3.2 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	17	1%	64.7%	27.9 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	303	86.1%	-0.2 min	0.0%
PBI–EWR	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Newark	236	67.8%	19.9 min	1.7%
PBI–LGA	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York	209	68.9%	19.9 min	2.9%
PBI–JFK	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York	163	77.3%	6.7 min	1.8%
PBI–BOS	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Boston	152	60.5%	23.8 min	2.6%
PBI–CLT	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Charlotte	136	89.0%	0.5 min	0.0%
PBI–HPN	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to White Plains	135	78.5%	6.2 min	0.7%
PBI–PHL	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Philadelphia	124	79.8%	11.0 min	0.8%
PBI–DCA	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Washington	119	73.1%	8.6 min	0.0%
PBI–BWI	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Baltimore	93	86.0%	1.4 min	0.0%
PBI–ISP	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Islip	92	90.2%	-4.9 min	0.0%
PBI–ORD	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Chicago	85	60.0%	28.3 min	0.0%

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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	20.2%	34.0%	7,727
Late-arriving aircraft	43.8%	39.7%	16,784
National Aviation System	31.2%	22.9%	11,936
Extreme weather	4.8%	3.3%	1,842
Security	0.1%	0.1%	26

38,315 delay minutes on 491 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 October 2025?

77.6% of 2,268 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.3% 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, 82.6% of 2,123 departures left on time and 3.9% were cancelled, against 77.6% and 0.9% 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 PBI · methodology · corrections.