On-Time Report

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Airport month · January 2024

Pensacola International in January 2024

77.6%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 857 domestic departures from Pensacola International (PNS). 77.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.4% reached their destination on time; 1.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so PNS departures were 3.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PNS that month were on time 73.9% of the time (857 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, air carrier 32% and national aviation system 12%.

Every scheduled departure from PNS in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureJan 2024Year earlierPNS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time77.6%—77.6%74.0%
Arrived on time78.4%—78.1%72.9%
Cancelled1.9%—2.0%3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)20.1 min—20.1 min18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day29—3818,242
Scheduled departures857—13,941547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DL Delta Air Lines16319%95.7%-12.1 min0.0%
OH PSA Airlines15718%68.8%29.1 min3.2%
WN Southwest Airlines12515%79.2%4.7 min2.4%
AA American Airlines11714%68.4%33.5 min1.7%
MQ Envoy Air11013%77.3%8.0 min0.9%
UA United Airlines587%79.3%0.2 min6.9%
NK Spirit Airlines567%82.1%7.9 min0.0%
9E Endeavor Air435%79.1%3.0 min2.3%
F9 Frontier Airlines152%66.7%4.9 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines132%61.5%17.1 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PNS–ATLPensacola to Atlanta17595.4%-11.2 min0.0%
PNS–CLTPensacola to Charlotte14969.1%36.6 min1.3%
PNS–DFWPensacola to Dallas/Fort Worth11168.5%28.6 min1.8%
PNS–BNAPensacola to Nashville6282.3%5.0 min4.8%
PNS–DCAPensacola to Washington6269.4%12.4 min4.8%
PNS–MIAPensacola to Miami6282.3%-1.4 min1.6%
PNS–ORDPensacola to Chicago3675.0%11.2 min2.8%
PNS–IAHPensacola to Houston3577.1%-5.0 min8.6%
PNS–MCOPensacola to Orlando3378.8%11.7 min0.0%
PNS–DALPensacola to Dallas3275.0%5.6 min0.0%
PNS–HOUPensacola to Houston3177.4%3.2 min0.0%
PNS–LGAPensacola to New York3174.2%4.0 min3.2%

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 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2024Minutes
Air carrier32.3%32.6%5,071
Late-arriving aircraft47.1%39.0%7,397
National Aviation System12.0%17.9%1,875
Extreme weather8.6%10.3%1,347
Security0.0%0.2%0
15,690 delay minutes on 166 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 PNS on time in January 2024?

77.6% of 857 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 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 January 2024; 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.