St Pete Clearwater International in December 2023

83.3%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 December 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 627 domestic departures from St Pete Clearwater International (PIE). 83.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.8% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so PIE departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PIE that month were on time 78.3% of the time (627 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 35% and national aviation system 9%.

On time 85.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.2%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.6%

Every scheduled departure from PIE in December 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

December 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	PIE, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time	83.3%	—	78.7%	83.1%
Arrived on time	85.8%	—	76.3%	83.8%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	0.6%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.7 min	—	15.5 min	11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	21	—	25	19,013
Scheduled departures	627	—	9,050	570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
G4 Allegiant Air	627	100%	85.8%	-0.7 min	0.3%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PIE–AVL	St. Petersburg to Asheville	47	83.0%	2.9 min	0.0%
PIE–TYS	St. Petersburg to Knoxville	31	77.4%	6.1 min	0.0%
PIE–GRR	St. Petersburg to Grand Rapids	30	90.0%	-1.1 min	0.0%
PIE–USA	St. Petersburg to Concord	23	78.3%	2.6 min	0.0%
PIE–IND	St. Petersburg to Indianapolis	21	90.5%	-0.9 min	0.0%
PIE–FNT	St. Petersburg to Flint	20	65.0%	25.5 min	0.0%
PIE–ABE	St. Petersburg to Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton	18	77.8%	8.9 min	0.0%
PIE–CVG	St. Petersburg to Cincinnati	18	83.3%	46.4 min	0.0%
PIE–FWA	St. Petersburg to Fort Wayne	15	93.3%	-6.1 min	0.0%
PIE–BLV	St. Petersburg to Belleville	13	100.0%	-12.4 min	0.0%
PIE–MDT	St. Petersburg to Harrisburg	13	92.3%	-9.2 min	7.7%
PIE–PIA	St. Petersburg to Peoria	13	84.6%	-13.2 min	0.0%

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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	35.0%	37.1%	2,281
Late-arriving aircraft	48.8%	38.8%	3,180
National Aviation System	8.9%	17.6%	581
Extreme weather	7.3%	6.2%	476
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

6,518 delay minutes on 83 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 PIE on time in December 2023?

83.3% of 627 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 83.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 2022 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 December 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for PIE · methodology · corrections.