Pensacola International in March 2024

77.3%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,137 domestic departures from Pensacola International (PNS). 77.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.3% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so PNS departures were 1.2 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PNS that month were on time 74.7% of the time (1,137 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 55%, air carrier 26% and national aviation system 15%.

On time 79.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.8%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	PNS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	77.3%	—	77.6%	78.5%
Arrived on time	79.3%	—	78.1%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	2.0%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	17.8 min	—	20.1 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	38	—	38	19,726
Scheduled departures	1,137	—	13,941	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DL Delta Air Lines	204	18%	90.7%	-2.4 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	196	17%	83.2%	0.0 min	0.5%
AA American Airlines	181	16%	62.4%	30.1 min	1.7%
OH PSA Airlines	159	14%	89.9%	-2.9 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	155	14%	72.9%	10.9 min	1.3%
NK Spirit Airlines	88	8%	60.2%	25.5 min	1.1%
UA United Airlines	63	6%	84.1%	-2.8 min	0.0%
9E Endeavor Air	32	3%	84.4%	29.4 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	30	3%	86.7%	-4.0 min	3.3%
OO SkyWest Airlines	29	3%	89.7%	24.9 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PNS–ATL	Pensacola to Atlanta	205	90.7%	-2.5 min	0.0%
PNS–CLT	Pensacola to Charlotte	155	80.0%	8.5 min	0.0%
PNS–DFW	Pensacola to Dallas/Fort Worth	149	61.1%	33.3 min	2.7%
PNS–DCA	Pensacola to Washington	93	90.3%	-8.1 min	0.0%
PNS–MIA	Pensacola to Miami	93	69.9%	13.6 min	1.1%
PNS–BNA	Pensacola to Nashville	87	86.2%	-7.2 min	1.1%
PNS–MCO	Pensacola to Orlando	57	59.6%	29.5 min	1.8%
PNS–ORD	Pensacola to Chicago	48	87.5%	-5.4 min	0.0%
PNS–IAH	Pensacola to Houston	44	84.1%	18.3 min	0.0%
PNS–DEN	Pensacola to Denver	43	88.4%	-5.4 min	2.3%
PNS–DAL	Pensacola to Dallas	39	76.9%	6.8 min	0.0%
PNS–FLL	Pensacola to Fort Lauderdale	31	61.3%	18.2 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	26.3%	32.1%	4,866
Late-arriving aircraft	55.1%	42.1%	10,190
National Aviation System	15.4%	21.4%	2,855
Extreme weather	3.0%	4.2%	561
Security	0.1%	0.2%	14

18,486 delay minutes on 225 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 March 2024?

77.3% of 1,137 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.