On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2025

Pensacola International in April 2025

81.7%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 April 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,154 domestic departures from Pensacola International (PNS). 81.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.5% reached their destination on time; 1.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so PNS departures were 1.1 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 1,139 departures with 81.7% leaving on time: a change of 0.0 points, with flights up 1%.

Flights arriving at PNS that month were on time 77.1% of the time (1,154 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 14%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2025Apr 2024PNS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time81.7%81.7%77.6%80.6%
Arrived on time81.5%80.1%78.1%79.5%
Cancelled1.8%1.5%2.0%0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)13.6 min17.3 min20.1 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day39383819,465
Scheduled departures1,1541,13913,941583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DL Delta Air Lines24521%90.6%-2.5 min0.8%
WN Southwest Airlines23320%85.0%0.1 min0.4%
OH PSA Airlines17815%73.6%15.5 min3.9%
AA American Airlines17115%72.5%19.8 min2.3%
MQ Envoy Air16614%78.9%5.0 min4.2%
NK Spirit Airlines827%85.4%-6.4 min0.0%
UA United Airlines646%90.6%-10.6 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines121%50.0%33.3 min0.0%
YX Republic Airline30%33.3%13.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PNS–ATLPensacola to Atlanta24590.6%-2.5 min0.8%
PNS–CLTPensacola to Charlotte17877.0%12.9 min2.8%
PNS–DFWPensacola to Dallas/Fort Worth14665.1%24.9 min5.5%
PNS–MIAPensacola to Miami10786.9%-0.9 min2.8%
PNS–BNAPensacola to Nashville8284.1%-0.4 min1.2%
PNS–DCAPensacola to Washington6070.0%14.8 min3.3%
PNS–DENPensacola to Denver4472.7%7.9 min0.0%
PNS–MCOPensacola to Orlando4182.9%-7.0 min0.0%
PNS–DALPensacola to Dallas3878.9%4.7 min0.0%
PNS–ORDPensacola to Chicago3485.3%-4.2 min0.0%
PNS–HOUPensacola to Houston3397.0%-11.5 min0.0%
PNS–FLLPensacola to Fort Lauderdale3083.3%-5.8 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), April 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2025Minutes
Air carrier25.8%32.7%3,697
Late-arriving aircraft55.4%39.4%7,949
National Aviation System13.9%22.2%1,998
Extreme weather4.9%5.5%708
Security0.0%0.2%0
14,352 delay minutes on 188 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 April 2025?

81.7% of 1,154 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 81.7% of 1,139 departures left on time and 1.5% were cancelled, against 81.7% and 1.8% in April 2025.

Provenance

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