Portland International in February 2024

86.4%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 4,017 domestic departures from Portland International (PDX). 86.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.7% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so PDX departures were 2.4 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PDX that month were on time 84.3% of the time (4,019 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 36%, air carrier 30% and late-arriving aircraft 29%.

On time 83.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.7%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from PDX 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	PDX, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	86.4%	—	82.7%	84.0%
Arrived on time	83.7%	—	82.0%	83.4%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	0.7%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.7 min	—	11.6 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	134	—	173	17,307
Scheduled departures	4,017	—	63,282	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AS Alaska Airlines	1,266	32%	81.2%	2.3 min	0.3%
OO SkyWest Airlines	819	20%	81.1%	6.2 min	0.5%
WN Southwest Airlines	595	15%	87.7%	0.4 min	0.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	433	11%	91.9%	-4.1 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	402	10%	78.4%	9.7 min	0.2%
AA American Airlines	257	6%	89.9%	0.6 min	0.4%
NK Spirit Airlines	92	2%	88.0%	-3.9 min	1.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines	75	2%	89.3%	-5.0 min	0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	59	1%	67.8%	13.4 min	1.7%
G4 Allegiant Air	17	0%	88.2%	-1.7 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	2	0%	100.0%	-16.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PDX–SEA	Portland to Seattle	443	91.9%	-3.3 min	0.5%
PDX–LAX	Portland to Los Angeles	309	85.4%	2.1 min	0.0%
PDX–PHX	Portland to Phoenix	307	85.0%	1.4 min	0.3%
PDX–LAS	Portland to Las Vegas	298	83.2%	3.3 min	0.7%
PDX–DEN	Portland to Denver	279	86.0%	-1.0 min	0.4%
PDX–SFO	Portland to San Francisco	250	42.8%	38.9 min	1.6%
PDX–SJC	Portland to San Jose	172	89.0%	0.8 min	0.0%
PDX–DFW	Portland to Dallas/Fort Worth	164	86.0%	5.5 min	0.0%
PDX–SLC	Portland to Salt Lake City	162	93.2%	-3.0 min	0.0%
PDX–OAK	Portland to Oakland	152	85.5%	2.2 min	0.0%
PDX–SAN	Portland to San Diego	114	79.8%	3.2 min	0.9%
PDX–SMF	Portland to Sacramento	109	85.3%	2.3 min	1.8%

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	30.2%	35.9%	11,761
Late-arriving aircraft	29.2%	36.9%	11,379
National Aviation System	36.0%	21.7%	14,008
Extreme weather	4.1%	5.3%	1,600
Security	0.5%	0.3%	182

38,930 delay minutes on 630 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 PDX on time in February 2024?

86.4% of 4,017 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.7% 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 PDX · methodology · corrections.