Pensacola International in December 2023

85.9%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 December 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 911 domestic departures from Pensacola International (PNS). 85.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.0% reached their destination on time; 0.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so PNS departures were 2.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PNS that month were on time 83.0% of the time (911 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 56%, air carrier 23% and national aviation system 18%.

On time 87.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.7%
Cancelled 0.1%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	PNS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time	85.9%	—	77.6%	83.1%
Arrived on time	87.0%	—	78.1%	83.8%
Cancelled	0.1%	—	2.0%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	8.4 min	—	20.1 min	11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	30	—	38	19,013
Scheduled departures	911	—	13,941	570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DL Delta Air Lines	185	20%	95.7%	-12.7 min	0.0%
OH PSA Airlines	154	17%	90.3%	-2.7 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	144	16%	88.2%	-1.1 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	138	15%	89.9%	-2.6 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	91	10%	74.7%	6.9 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	67	7%	58.2%	17.4 min	1.5%
UA United Airlines	62	7%	91.9%	-3.4 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	31	3%	87.1%	13.5 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	22	2%	90.9%	-9.1 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	17	2%	88.2%	6.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PNS–ATL	Pensacola to Atlanta	185	95.7%	-12.7 min	0.0%
PNS–CLT	Pensacola to Charlotte	154	85.7%	1.9 min	0.0%
PNS–DFW	Pensacola to Dallas/Fort Worth	110	91.8%	-6.1 min	0.0%
PNS–MIA	Pensacola to Miami	66	69.7%	11.4 min	0.0%
PNS–BNA	Pensacola to Nashville	64	90.6%	-4.0 min	0.0%
PNS–DCA	Pensacola to Washington	59	93.2%	-5.7 min	0.0%
PNS–ORD	Pensacola to Chicago	48	89.6%	2.7 min	0.0%
PNS–DAL	Pensacola to Dallas	39	94.9%	-5.1 min	0.0%
PNS–MCO	Pensacola to Orlando	37	62.2%	15.4 min	2.7%
PNS–HOU	Pensacola to Houston	33	84.8%	1.4 min	0.0%
PNS–IAH	Pensacola to Houston	31	93.5%	-7.7 min	0.0%
PNS–LGA	Pensacola to New York	31	87.1%	13.5 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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	23.4%	37.1%	1,615
Late-arriving aircraft	56.3%	38.8%	3,888
National Aviation System	17.9%	17.6%	1,233
Extreme weather	2.0%	6.2%	138
Security	0.4%	0.3%	27

6,901 delay minutes on 116 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 December 2023?

85.9% of 911 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 83.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 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 December 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.