On-Time Report

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Airport month · January 2025

Pensacola International in January 2025

73.9%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 January 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 902 domestic departures from Pensacola International (PNS). 73.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 75.2% reached their destination on time; 11.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so PNS departures were 5.4 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 857 departures with 77.6% leaving on time: a change of −3.7 points, with flights up 5%.

Flights arriving at PNS that month were on time 70.8% of the time (903 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 59%, air carrier 24% and national aviation system 13%.

Every scheduled departure from PNS in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureJan 2025Jan 2024PNS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time73.9%77.6%77.6%79.3%
Arrived on time75.2%78.4%78.1%78.6%
Cancelled11.4%1.9%2.0%3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)18.6 min20.1 min20.1 min14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day30293817,992
Scheduled departures90285713,941539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OH PSA Airlines21324%70.4%12.6 min16.4%
MQ Envoy Air17319%72.8%3.3 min12.7%
DL Delta Air Lines16018%79.4%-3.2 min11.9%
WN Southwest Airlines11313%80.5%5.4 min6.2%
AA American Airlines799%68.4%31.2 min10.1%
UA United Airlines627%82.3%8.6 min8.1%
NK Spirit Airlines556%85.5%-11.9 min7.3%
OO SkyWest Airlines243%79.2%-2.5 min12.5%
F9 Frontier Airlines233%56.5%58.8 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PNS–CLTPensacola to Charlotte17472.4%15.6 min13.8%
PNS–ATLPensacola to Atlanta16079.4%-3.2 min11.9%
PNS–MIAPensacola to Miami11776.9%-2.1 min11.1%
PNS–DFWPensacola to Dallas/Fort Worth10664.2%33.2 min13.2%
PNS–DCAPensacola to Washington6867.6%-4.1 min20.6%
PNS–BNAPensacola to Nashville6384.1%2.7 min6.3%
PNS–IAHPensacola to Houston5581.8%3.1 min10.9%
PNS–DALPensacola to Dallas3467.6%10.5 min8.8%
PNS–ORDPensacola to Chicago3180.6%9.8 min6.5%
PNS–MCOPensacola to Orlando3086.7%-21.0 min10.0%
PNS–FLLPensacola to Fort Lauderdale2584.0%-1.7 min4.0%
PNS–DENPensacola to Denver2356.5%58.8 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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2025Minutes
Air carrier24.1%36.2%3,305
Late-arriving aircraft59.1%34.7%8,122
National Aviation System12.7%19.9%1,747
Extreme weather4.1%9.1%561
Security0.0%0.2%6
13,741 delay minutes on 120 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 2025?

73.9% of 902 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 75.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 77.6% of 857 departures left on time and 1.9% were cancelled, against 73.9% and 11.4% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.