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Airport month · April 2024
Portland International in April 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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 4,765 domestic departures from Portland International (PDX). 84.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.6% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so PDX departures were 4.1 points above the national departure figure.
Flights arriving at PDX that month were on time 81.7% of the time (4,768 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 43%, late-arriving aircraft 30% and national aviation system 24%.
- On time 83.6%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.9%
- Cancelled 0.3%
- Diverted 0.2%
April 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | Apr 2024 | Year earlier | PDX, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, Apr 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 84.6% | — | 82.7% | 80.5% |
| Arrived on time | 83.6% | — | 82.0% | 80.2% |
| Cancelled | 0.3% | — | 0.7% | 0.7% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 11.4 min | — | 11.6 min | 14.2 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 159 | — | 173 | 19,406 |
| Scheduled departures | 4,765 | — | 63,282 | 582,185 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS Alaska Airlines | 1,266 | 27% | 81.8% | 3.8 min | 0.4% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 1,031 | 22% | 85.2% | 2.0 min | 0.0% |
| WN Southwest Airlines | 769 | 16% | 83.5% | 1.0 min | 0.0% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 530 | 11% | 93.0% | -4.6 min | 0.2% |
| UA United Airlines | 497 | 10% | 81.1% | 2.2 min | 0.2% |
| AA American Airlines | 333 | 7% | 79.9% | 22.7 min | 1.5% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 139 | 3% | 59.7% | 26.2 min | 2.9% |
| NK Spirit Airlines | 90 | 2% | 93.3% | -5.8 min | 0.0% |
| HA Hawaiian Airlines | 60 | 1% | 91.7% | 16.6 min | 0.0% |
| B6 JetBlue Airways | 30 | 1% | 90.0% | -15.7 min | 0.0% |
| G4 Allegiant Air | 17 | 0% | 94.1% | -3.7 min | 0.0% |
| MQ Envoy Air | 3 | 0% | 100.0% | -9.0 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDX–SEA | Portland to Seattle | 452 | 88.7% | 0.3 min | 0.2% |
| PDX–PHX | Portland to Phoenix | 381 | 82.9% | 8.3 min | 0.3% |
| PDX–DEN | Portland to Denver | 346 | 85.0% | 1.6 min | 0.3% |
| PDX–LAX | Portland to Los Angeles | 327 | 89.9% | -2.8 min | 0.3% |
| PDX–LAS | Portland to Las Vegas | 320 | 80.0% | 2.7 min | 0.6% |
| PDX–SFO | Portland to San Francisco | 245 | 41.2% | 38.8 min | 0.4% |
| PDX–SLC | Portland to Salt Lake City | 195 | 91.3% | -4.3 min | 0.0% |
| PDX–SJC | Portland to San Jose | 188 | 84.6% | 1.3 min | 0.0% |
| PDX–ORD | Portland to Chicago | 187 | 88.8% | -7.7 min | 0.5% |
| PDX–DFW | Portland to Dallas/Fort Worth | 182 | 73.1% | 26.2 min | 3.8% |
| PDX–OAK | Portland to Oakland | 164 | 87.2% | -1.9 min | 0.0% |
| PDX–SMF | Portland to Sacramento | 121 | 84.3% | 1.1 min | 0.0% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left PDX on time in April 2024?
84.6% of 4,765 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
April 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 April 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.