Tri Cities in August 2023

87.5%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 August 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 510 domestic departures from Tri Cities (PSC). 87.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.3% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so PSC departures were 10.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PSC that month were on time 83.9% of the time (510 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 66%, extreme weather 14% and late-arriving aircraft 12%.

On time 85.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.3%
Cancelled 0.2%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from PSC in August 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Aug 2023	Year earlier	PSC, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Aug 2023
Departed on time	87.5%	—	88.0%	76.7%
Arrived on time	85.3%	—	86.7%	76.9%
Cancelled	0.2%	—	0.5%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.1 min	—	12.2 min	17.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	17	—	17	20,100
Scheduled departures	510	—	6,190	602,987

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	391	77%	84.4%	6.8 min	0.3%
AS Alaska Airlines	62	12%	93.5%	-4.2 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	6%	96.8%	-5.5 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	26	5%	65.4%	59.6 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSC–SEA	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Seattle	236	84.3%	8.9 min	0.0%
PSC–SLC	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Salt Lake City	93	93.5%	-6.2 min	0.0%
PSC–DEN	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Denver	62	83.9%	1.1 min	1.6%
PSC–SFO	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to San Francisco	62	80.6%	13.2 min	0.0%
PSC–MSP	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Minneapolis	31	96.8%	-5.5 min	0.0%
PSC–AZA	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Phoenix	9	33.3%	129.2 min	0.0%
PSC–LAS	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Las Vegas	9	88.9%	6.9 min	0.0%
PSC–LAX	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Los Angeles	4	75.0%	20.3 min	0.0%
PSC–SAN	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to San Diego	4	75.0%	60.8 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), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Aug 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	66.2%	36.7%	4,468
Late-arriving aircraft	12.0%	42.2%	809
National Aviation System	7.6%	15.7%	514
Extreme weather	14.2%	5.1%	958
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

6,749 delay minutes on 73 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 PSC on time in August 2023?

87.5% of 510 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 76.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 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 August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for PSC · methodology · corrections.