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Airport month · May 2024

Pensacola International in May 2024

68.5%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,224 domestic departures from Pensacola International (PNS). 68.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 66.3% reached their destination on time; 2.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so PNS departures were 4.9 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PNS that month were on time 64.7% of the time (1,224 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 52%, air carrier 19% and national aviation system 17%.

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

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

MeasureMay 2024Year earlierPNS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time68.5%—77.6%73.4%
Arrived on time66.3%—78.1%72.3%
Cancelled2.4%—2.0%1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)32.6 min—20.1 min20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day41—3820,325
Scheduled departures1,224—13,941609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OH PSA Airlines24120%61.8%46.6 min0.4%
DL Delta Air Lines22819%80.3%6.5 min0.4%
AA American Airlines21417%45.8%64.4 min10.3%
WN Southwest Airlines18415%73.4%13.1 min1.1%
MQ Envoy Air1129%67.9%15.5 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines938%67.7%20.9 min2.2%
UA United Airlines635%76.2%19.4 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines464%56.5%19.4 min2.2%
9E Endeavor Air313%80.6%13.8 min0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines111%72.7%21.5 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline10%100.0%0.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PNS–ATLPensacola to Atlanta22880.3%6.5 min0.4%
PNS–CLTPensacola to Charlotte19259.4%41.9 min0.5%
PNS–DFWPensacola to Dallas/Fort Worth17842.7%72.8 min12.9%
PNS–DCAPensacola to Washington9365.6%45.1 min0.0%
PNS–MIAPensacola to Miami9366.7%18.5 min0.0%
PNS–BNAPensacola to Nashville8980.9%11.4 min0.0%
PNS–DALPensacola to Dallas3971.8%15.5 min2.6%
PNS–DENPensacola to Denver3946.2%22.6 min2.6%
PNS–IAHPensacola to Houston3876.3%25.8 min0.0%
PNS–MCOPensacola to Orlando3860.5%23.8 min2.6%
PNS–PHLPensacola to Philadelphia3767.6%24.3 min0.0%
PNS–ORDPensacola to Chicago3680.6%11.9 min0.0%

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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, May 2024Minutes
Air carrier18.9%29.8%7,315
Late-arriving aircraft51.7%43.0%20,031
National Aviation System16.9%20.1%6,556
Extreme weather12.5%7.0%4,856
Security0.0%0.1%18
38,776 delay minutes on 375 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 May 2024?

68.5% of 1,224 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 66.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.