On-Time Report

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Airport month · July 2025

Portland International in July 2025

77.3%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 July 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 5,864 domestic departures from Portland International (PDX). 77.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.4% reached their destination on time; 1.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 69.7% of flights departed on time and 69.0% arrived on time, so PDX departures were 7.6 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in July 2024, the airport had 5,492 departures with 77.5% leaving on time: a change of −0.2 points, with flights up 7%.

Flights arriving at PDX that month were on time 74.7% of the time (5,862 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 41%, air carrier 37% and national aviation system 21%.

Every scheduled departure from PDX in July 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureJul 2025Jul 2024PDX, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jul 2025
Departed on time77.3%77.5%82.7%69.7%
Arrived on time74.4%77.0%82.0%69.0%
Cancelled1.2%2.3%0.7%2.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)16.4 min15.3 min11.6 min24.3 min
Scheduled departures a day19618317321,048
Scheduled departures5,8645,49263,282631,428

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AS Alaska Airlines1,70629%76.0%7.3 min1.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines1,00217%81.6%5.3 min0.2%
WN Southwest Airlines92816%66.6%15.8 min0.5%
DL Delta Air Lines74013%80.0%7.8 min0.7%
UA United Airlines62311%72.2%12.2 min1.0%
AA American Airlines4448%68.2%18.7 min3.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines1452%65.5%24.9 min4.8%
G4 Allegiant Air982%69.4%23.3 min0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines892%65.2%22.5 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines581%87.9%9.1 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways311%41.9%78.4 min3.2%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PDX–DENPortland to Denver46161.6%18.5 min1.3%
PDX–SEAPortland to Seattle42375.9%9.1 min0.0%
PDX–LAXPortland to Los Angeles40985.6%1.6 min2.4%
PDX–SFOPortland to San Francisco31677.8%3.7 min0.9%
PDX–PHXPortland to Phoenix31275.6%15.2 min1.0%
PDX–LASPortland to Las Vegas30376.2%11.9 min0.7%
PDX–ORDPortland to Chicago29760.9%23.1 min1.7%
PDX–SLCPortland to Salt Lake City24779.4%7.7 min0.0%
PDX–DFWPortland to Dallas/Fort Worth23072.6%14.0 min2.2%
PDX–SMFPortland to Sacramento21578.1%9.8 min0.5%
PDX–ATLPortland to Atlanta17874.2%14.4 min0.6%
PDX–SANPortland to San Diego15782.2%5.9 min1.3%

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), July 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jul 2025Minutes
Air carrier37.1%31.1%33,801
Late-arriving aircraft40.5%40.8%36,971
National Aviation System21.3%20.7%19,412
Extreme weather1.0%7.3%892
Security0.1%0.1%135
91,211 delay minutes on 1,402 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left PDX on time in July 2025?

77.3% of 5,864 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 69.7% and 69.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In July 2024, 77.5% of 5,492 departures left on time and 2.3% were cancelled, against 77.3% and 1.2% in July 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for July 2025; 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.