Punta Gorda Airport in March 2025

81.4%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 March 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,026 domestic departures from Punta Gorda Airport (PGD). 81.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.1% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so PGD departures were 1.5 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 765 departures with 76.2% leaving on time: a change of +5.2 points, with flights up 34%.

Flights arriving at PGD that month were on time 77.6% of the time (1,026 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 53%, air carrier 25% and late-arriving aircraft 17%.

On time 81.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.4%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from PGD in March 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	PGD, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	81.4%	76.2%	78.4%	79.9%
Arrived on time	81.1%	74.9%	78.3%	79.3%
Cancelled	0.3%	0.7%	0.6%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.7 min	19.6 min	16.0 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	34	26	20	20,029
Scheduled departures	1,026	765	7,374	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
G4 Allegiant Air	1,026	100%	81.1%	5.3 min	0.3%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PGD–GRR	Punta Gorda to Grand Rapids	58	79.3%	10.3 min	0.0%
PGD–CVG	Punta Gorda to Cincinnati	56	67.9%	15.5 min	0.0%
PGD–FNT	Punta Gorda to Flint	49	85.7%	14.4 min	0.0%
PGD–ATW	Punta Gorda to Appleton	43	76.7%	9.1 min	0.0%
PGD–DSM	Punta Gorda to Des Moines	33	66.7%	10.1 min	3.0%
PGD–FWA	Punta Gorda to Fort Wayne	33	93.9%	-9.0 min	0.0%
PGD–ABE	Punta Gorda to Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton	32	84.4%	-8.2 min	3.1%
PGD–BLV	Punta Gorda to Belleville	31	74.2%	8.3 min	0.0%
PGD–CID	Punta Gorda to Cedar Rapids/Iowa City	31	87.1%	-5.5 min	0.0%
PGD–IAG	Punta Gorda to Niagara Falls	31	74.2%	10.9 min	0.0%
PGD–PSM	Punta Gorda to Portsmouth	31	93.5%	-12.1 min	0.0%
PGD–IND	Punta Gorda to Indianapolis	29	86.2%	4.0 min	0.0%

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), March 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	25.1%	33.0%	3,805
Late-arriving aircraft	16.9%	39.2%	2,565
National Aviation System	52.7%	21.9%	8,000
Extreme weather	5.2%	5.9%	782
Security	0.1%	0.1%	16

15,168 delay minutes on 189 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 PGD on time in March 2025?

81.4% of 1,026 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 76.2% of 765 departures left on time and 0.7% were cancelled, against 81.4% and 0.3% in March 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for March 2025; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for PGD · methodology · corrections.