Pensacola International in September 2023

83.7%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 923 domestic departures from Pensacola International (PNS). 83.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.9% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so PNS departures were 3.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PNS that month were on time 80.4% of the time (923 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 46%, air carrier 39% and national aviation system 13%.

On time 83.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.2%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from PNS in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	PNS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	83.7%	—	77.6%	80.5%
Arrived on time	83.9%	—	78.1%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.8%	—	2.0%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.8 min	—	20.1 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	31	—	38	18,978
Scheduled departures	923	—	13,941	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OH PSA Airlines	205	22%	85.4%	3.7 min	1.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	194	21%	94.8%	-7.4 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	147	16%	85.0%	1.4 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	141	15%	74.5%	13.4 min	0.7%
MQ Envoy Air	77	8%	85.7%	-4.9 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	77	8%	67.5%	27.6 min	2.6%
UA United Airlines	60	7%	81.7%	6.1 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	20	2%	80.0%	67.1 min	5.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	1	0%	100.0%	-54.0 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	1	0%	100.0%	-9.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PNS–ATL	Pensacola to Atlanta	194	94.8%	-7.4 min	0.0%
PNS–CLT	Pensacola to Charlotte	148	88.5%	5.4 min	0.7%
PNS–DFW	Pensacola to Dallas/Fort Worth	116	80.2%	8.6 min	0.0%
PNS–MIA	Pensacola to Miami	65	87.7%	-5.4 min	0.0%
PNS–BNA	Pensacola to Nashville	63	84.1%	3.6 min	0.0%
PNS–DCA	Pensacola to Washington	60	73.3%	6.7 min	1.7%
PNS–MCO	Pensacola to Orlando	47	68.1%	13.8 min	4.3%
PNS–DAL	Pensacola to Dallas	38	86.8%	-3.6 min	0.0%
PNS–ORD	Pensacola to Chicago	35	74.3%	1.3 min	0.0%
PNS–HOU	Pensacola to Houston	33	81.8%	5.9 min	0.0%
PNS–FLL	Pensacola to Fort Lauderdale	30	66.7%	48.3 min	0.0%
PNS–IAH	Pensacola to Houston	30	86.7%	11.0 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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	39.1%	36.4%	4,825
Late-arriving aircraft	45.5%	38.3%	5,619
National Aviation System	12.8%	19.9%	1,580
Extreme weather	2.1%	5.1%	264
Security	0.5%	0.2%	59

12,347 delay minutes on 140 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 PNS on time in September 2023?

83.7% of 923 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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