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Airport month · March 2024
Portland International in March 2024
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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 4,671 domestic departures from Portland International (PDX). 84.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.8% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so PDX departures were 6.3 points above the national departure figure.
Flights arriving at PDX that month were on time 80.5% of the time (4,666 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 35%, national aviation system 34% and air carrier 29%.
- On time 82.8%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.5%
- Cancelled 0.5%
- Diverted 0.2%
March 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | Mar 2024 | Year earlier | PDX, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, Mar 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 84.8% | — | 82.7% | 78.5% |
| Arrived on time | 82.8% | — | 82.0% | 78.3% |
| Cancelled | 0.5% | — | 0.7% | 0.9% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 10.3 min | — | 11.6 min | 15.7 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 156 | — | 173 | 19,726 |
| Scheduled departures | 4,671 | — | 63,282 | 591,767 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS Alaska Airlines | 1,367 | 29% | 78.6% | 4.7 min | 0.7% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 935 | 20% | 85.5% | 1.7 min | 0.1% |
| WN Southwest Airlines | 769 | 16% | 86.3% | 0.9 min | 0.5% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 526 | 11% | 89.4% | -2.5 min | 0.2% |
| UA United Airlines | 504 | 11% | 81.9% | 3.6 min | 0.0% |
| AA American Airlines | 266 | 6% | 78.2% | 14.6 min | 0.8% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 95 | 2% | 65.3% | 26.9 min | 4.2% |
| NK Spirit Airlines | 93 | 2% | 79.6% | 3.0 min | 1.1% |
| HA Hawaiian Airlines | 62 | 1% | 87.1% | -2.5 min | 0.0% |
| MQ Envoy Air | 32 | 1% | 100.0% | -11.2 min | 0.0% |
| G4 Allegiant Air | 18 | 0% | 94.4% | -4.6 min | 0.0% |
| B6 JetBlue Airways | 4 | 0% | 50.0% | 25.5 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDX–SEA | Portland to Seattle | 430 | 90.7% | -3.1 min | 0.5% |
| PDX–PHX | Portland to Phoenix | 406 | 83.0% | 7.4 min | 0.7% |
| PDX–LAS | Portland to Las Vegas | 346 | 77.5% | 7.8 min | 1.4% |
| PDX–DEN | Portland to Denver | 332 | 86.1% | 1.0 min | 0.9% |
| PDX–LAX | Portland to Los Angeles | 326 | 89.9% | -3.8 min | 0.0% |
| PDX–SFO | Portland to San Francisco | 273 | 49.5% | 25.5 min | 0.4% |
| PDX–SLC | Portland to Salt Lake City | 192 | 90.6% | -1.1 min | 0.0% |
| PDX–SJC | Portland to San Jose | 179 | 91.6% | -3.5 min | 0.0% |
| PDX–DFW | Portland to Dallas/Fort Worth | 178 | 72.5% | 11.6 min | 1.1% |
| PDX–OAK | Portland to Oakland | 169 | 84.6% | 1.2 min | 0.6% |
| PDX–SMF | Portland to Sacramento | 129 | 90.7% | -4.3 min | 0.0% |
| PDX–SAN | Portland to San Diego | 119 | 84.0% | 1.6 min | 0.0% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left PDX on time in March 2024?
84.8% of 4,671 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
March 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 March 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.