St Pete Clearwater International in January 2025

83.5%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 January 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 654 domestic departures from St Pete Clearwater International (PIE). 83.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.6% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so PIE departures were 4.2 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 580 departures with 80.7% leaving on time: a change of +2.8 points, with flights up 13%.

Flights arriving at PIE that month were on time 79.2% of the time (654 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, extreme weather 35%, late-arriving aircraft 31% and air carrier 24%.

On time 84.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.4%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from PIE in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Jan 2025	Jan 2024	PIE, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time	83.5%	80.7%	78.7%	79.3%
Arrived on time	84.6%	82.2%	76.3%	78.6%
Cancelled	0.8%	0.9%	0.6%	3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.3 min	17.5 min	15.5 min	14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	22	19	25	17,992
Scheduled departures	654	580	9,050	539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
G4 Allegiant Air	654	100%	84.6%	-1.9 min	0.8%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PIE–AVL	St. Petersburg to Asheville	36	80.6%	-1.1 min	2.8%
PIE–GRR	St. Petersburg to Grand Rapids	34	76.5%	3.8 min	0.0%
PIE–TYS	St. Petersburg to Knoxville	33	84.8%	4.4 min	0.0%
PIE–EYW	St. Petersburg to Key West	26	92.3%	-11.3 min	0.0%
PIE–CVG	St. Petersburg to Cincinnati	21	76.2%	14.9 min	4.8%
PIE–CID	St. Petersburg to Cedar Rapids/Iowa City	20	95.0%	-11.8 min	0.0%
PIE–FNT	St. Petersburg to Flint	20	70.0%	7.1 min	0.0%
PIE–ABE	St. Petersburg to Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton	19	94.7%	-10.7 min	0.0%
PIE–ATW	St. Petersburg to Appleton	19	84.2%	-9.6 min	0.0%
PIE–IND	St. Petersburg to Indianapolis	17	70.6%	40.5 min	0.0%
PIE–BGR	St. Petersburg to Bangor	16	100.0%	-21.4 min	0.0%
PIE–DSM	St. Petersburg to Des Moines	14	92.9%	-11.9 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

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On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	23.5%	36.2%	1,587
Late-arriving aircraft	31.0%	34.7%	2,087
National Aviation System	10.4%	19.9%	704
Extreme weather	35.1%	9.1%	2,365
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

6,743 delay minutes on 94 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 January 2025?

83.5% of 654 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 80.7% of 580 departures left on time and 0.9% were cancelled, against 83.5% and 0.8% in January 2025.

Provenance

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