Pensacola International in October 2023

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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 982 domestic departures from Pensacola International (PNS). 83.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.0% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so PNS departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PNS that month were on time 81.6% of the time (982 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 52%, late-arriving aircraft 28% and national aviation system 18%.

On time 84.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.5%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	PNS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	83.5%	—	77.6%	83.8%
Arrived on time	84.0%	—	78.1%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	2.0%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.2 min	—	20.1 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	33	—	38	19,966
Scheduled departures	982	—	13,941	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DL Delta Air Lines	198	20%	93.9%	-4.2 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	175	18%	80.0%	18.1 min	0.6%
OH PSA Airlines	165	17%	78.2%	17.2 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	160	16%	86.3%	-0.5 min	0.6%
NK Spirit Airlines	90	9%	78.9%	8.2 min	1.1%
MQ Envoy Air	85	9%	77.6%	5.1 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	62	6%	88.7%	-8.8 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	28	3%	89.3%	-1.4 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	19	2%	78.9%	8.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PNS–ATL	Pensacola to Atlanta	198	93.9%	-4.2 min	0.0%
PNS–CLT	Pensacola to Charlotte	154	79.2%	15.9 min	0.0%
PNS–DFW	Pensacola to Dallas/Fort Worth	117	82.1%	25.0 min	0.9%
PNS–BNA	Pensacola to Nashville	71	81.7%	2.2 min	1.4%
PNS–DCA	Pensacola to Washington	62	83.9%	-1.2 min	0.0%
PNS–MIA	Pensacola to Miami	62	74.2%	4.9 min	0.0%
PNS–MCO	Pensacola to Orlando	59	84.7%	1.0 min	1.7%
PNS–IAH	Pensacola to Houston	58	93.1%	-7.4 min	0.0%
PNS–DAL	Pensacola to Dallas	40	92.5%	-4.2 min	0.0%
PNS–HOU	Pensacola to Houston	36	94.4%	-5.0 min	0.0%
PNS–ORD	Pensacola to Chicago	32	81.3%	-4.9 min	0.0%
PNS–FLL	Pensacola to Fort Lauderdale	31	67.7%	21.6 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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	52.3%	41.3%	7,177
Late-arriving aircraft	28.4%	40.5%	3,890
National Aviation System	17.6%	14.4%	2,408
Extreme weather	1.4%	3.7%	191
Security	0.3%	0.2%	45

13,711 delay minutes on 152 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 October 2023?

83.5% of 982 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 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 October 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.