On-Time Report

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Airport month · January 2025

Pittsburgh 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 3,071 domestic departures from Pittsburgh International (PIT). 83.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 73.6% reached their destination on time; 2.2% were cancelled.

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

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 3,250 departures with 82.5% leaving on time: a change of +1.0 points, with flights down 6%.

Flights arriving at PIT that month were on time 80.4% of the time (3,067 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 41%, late-arriving aircraft 28% and air carrier 26%.

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

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

MeasureJan 2025Jan 2024PIT, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time83.5%82.5%80.7%79.3%
Arrived on time73.6%77.8%79.7%78.6%
Cancelled2.2%2.3%2.0%3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)11.0 min14.1 min14.4 min14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day10210811717,992
Scheduled departures3,0713,25042,857539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
YX Republic Airline93030%80.8%-2.1 min2.2%
WN Southwest Airlines74324%73.8%4.1 min1.5%
AA American Airlines35912%73.8%5.2 min2.2%
DL Delta Air Lines2167%69.0%9.0 min4.2%
UA United Airlines2037%70.9%12.0 min1.0%
NK Spirit Airlines1505%70.7%13.1 min1.3%
OH PSA Airlines1314%53.4%24.1 min9.2%
G4 Allegiant Air1144%72.8%8.6 min0.9%
OO SkyWest Airlines833%62.7%20.6 min1.2%
B6 JetBlue Airways682%73.5%9.0 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air341%61.8%10.4 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines311%54.8%19.6 min3.2%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PIT–ORDPittsburgh to Chicago23978.2%5.5 min0.8%
PIT–LGAPittsburgh to New York23478.6%0.1 min1.7%
PIT–ATLPittsburgh to Atlanta21068.6%11.1 min4.8%
PIT–MCOPittsburgh to Orlando16381.0%0.9 min0.0%
PIT–EWRPittsburgh to Newark15884.8%-6.5 min1.3%
PIT–CLTPittsburgh to Charlotte15680.1%0.0 min2.6%
PIT–BOSPittsburgh to Boston14779.6%0.5 min0.7%
PIT–DCAPittsburgh to Washington13664.0%5.4 min11.0%
PIT–JFKPittsburgh to New York12881.3%-2.5 min1.6%
PIT–DFWPittsburgh to Dallas/Fort Worth12265.6%10.8 min3.3%
PIT–DENPittsburgh to Denver11072.7%11.0 min0.0%
PIT–BWIPittsburgh to Baltimore9269.6%2.2 min5.4%

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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2025Minutes
Air carrier25.8%36.2%10,640
Late-arriving aircraft28.4%34.7%11,754
National Aviation System41.2%19.9%17,005
Extreme weather4.0%9.1%1,668
Security0.6%0.2%252
41,319 delay minutes on 740 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 PIT on time in January 2025?

83.5% of 3,071 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 73.6% 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, 82.5% of 3,250 departures left on time and 2.3% were cancelled, against 83.5% and 2.2% 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 PIT · methodology · corrections.