St Pete Clearwater International in March 2024

81.3%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 782 domestic departures from St Pete Clearwater International (PIE). 81.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.5% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so PIE departures were 2.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PIE that month were on time 73.7% of the time (783 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 56%, national aviation system 24% and air carrier 16%.

On time 79.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.7%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from PIE in March 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

March 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	PIE, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	81.3%	—	78.7%	78.5%
Arrived on time	79.5%	—	76.3%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.8%	—	0.6%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.0 min	—	15.5 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	26	—	25	19,726
Scheduled departures	782	—	9,050	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
G4 Allegiant Air	782	100%	79.5%	3.4 min	0.8%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PIE–CVG	St. Petersburg to Cincinnati	47	76.6%	3.7 min	0.0%
PIE–GRR	St. Petersburg to Grand Rapids	41	73.2%	11.1 min	2.4%
PIE–AVL	St. Petersburg to Asheville	34	79.4%	5.6 min	2.9%
PIE–FNT	St. Petersburg to Flint	32	68.8%	15.0 min	0.0%
PIE–IND	St. Petersburg to Indianapolis	29	65.5%	26.3 min	0.0%
PIE–TYS	St. Petersburg to Knoxville	29	75.9%	19.6 min	0.0%
PIE–BGR	St. Petersburg to Bangor	27	74.1%	0.8 min	7.4%
PIE–ABE	St. Petersburg to Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton	23	82.6%	0.7 min	0.0%
PIE–FWA	St. Petersburg to Fort Wayne	22	77.3%	12.0 min	0.0%
PIE–ATW	St. Petersburg to Appleton	18	66.7%	15.7 min	0.0%
PIE–DSM	St. Petersburg to Des Moines	18	72.2%	24.9 min	0.0%
PIE–SBN	St. Petersburg to South Bend	18	83.3%	-2.3 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 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	16.1%	32.1%	1,556
Late-arriving aircraft	56.4%	42.1%	5,445
National Aviation System	24.1%	21.4%	2,328
Extreme weather	3.3%	4.2%	322
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

9,651 delay minutes on 154 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 March 2024?

81.3% of 782 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.5% 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 PIE · methodology · corrections.