Palm Beach International in November 2025

73.4%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 November 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 2,792 domestic departures from Palm Beach International (PBI). 73.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.9% reached their destination on time; 2.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.1% of flights departed on time and 77.3% arrived on time, so PBI departures were 4.7 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in November 2024, the airport had 2,530 departures with 84.9% leaving on time: a change of −11.5 points, with flights up 10%.

Flights arriving at PBI that month were on time 73.0% of the time (2,794 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 46%, national aviation system 27% and air carrier 25%.

On time 74.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 22.7%
Cancelled 2.1%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2025	Nov 2024	PBI, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2025
Departed on time	73.4%	84.9%	72.6%	78.1%
Arrived on time	74.9%	85.1%	72.9%	77.3%
Cancelled	2.1%	0.1%	2.5%	2.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	22.6 min	10.2 min	21.7 min	15.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	93	84	86	19,018
Scheduled departures	2,792	2,530	31,406	570,550

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways	841	30%	74.0%	10.6 min	2.9%
AA American Airlines	622	22%	72.7%	16.2 min	2.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	561	20%	78.8%	6.9 min	1.6%
UA United Airlines	405	15%	69.6%	23.2 min	2.5%
WN Southwest Airlines	251	9%	85.7%	5.2 min	0.4%
NK Spirit Airlines	42	2%	90.5%	-7.1 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	40	1%	60.0%	39.5 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	29	1%	58.6%	20.8 min	3.4%
YX Republic Airline	1	0%	0.0%	31.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PBI–EWR	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Newark	325	68.9%	24.6 min	2.8%
PBI–ATL	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Atlanta	309	84.8%	0.7 min	1.6%
PBI–LGA	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York	279	62.4%	21.7 min	2.5%
PBI–JFK	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to New York	208	78.8%	5.0 min	2.9%
PBI–BOS	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Boston	194	71.6%	18.4 min	2.1%
PBI–DCA	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Washington	169	69.2%	23.5 min	1.2%
PBI–CLT	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Charlotte	149	81.9%	0.8 min	1.3%
PBI–HPN	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to White Plains	147	78.2%	4.4 min	3.4%
PBI–DFW	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Dallas/Fort Worth	127	70.9%	12.0 min	1.6%
PBI–ORD	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Chicago	120	64.2%	38.6 min	3.3%
PBI–PHL	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Philadelphia	109	79.8%	11.0 min	4.6%
PBI–BWI	West Palm Beach/Palm Beach to Baltimore	106	86.8%	5.4 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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	24.8%	30.2%	13,998
Late-arriving aircraft	45.9%	38.3%	25,907
National Aviation System	27.4%	26.7%	15,449
Extreme weather	1.8%	4.6%	1,032
Security	0.2%	0.1%	86

56,472 delay minutes on 633 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 2025?

73.4% of 2,792 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.1% and 77.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In November 2024, 84.9% of 2,530 departures left on time and 0.1% were cancelled, against 73.4% and 2.1% in November 2025.

Provenance

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