Tri Cities in October 2023

89.3%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 504 domestic departures from Tri Cities (PSC). 89.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.9% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so PSC departures were 5.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PSC that month were on time 89.1% of the time (504 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 49%, late-arriving aircraft 34% and national aviation system 9%.

On time 86.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.9%
Cancelled 0.2%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	PSC, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	89.3%	—	88.0%	83.8%
Arrived on time	86.9%	—	86.7%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.2%	—	0.5%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	5.3 min	—	12.2 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	17	—	17	19,966
Scheduled departures	504	—	6,190	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	388	77%	86.9%	-3.7 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	61	12%	88.5%	-0.6 min	1.6%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	6%	93.5%	-9.9 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	24	5%	75.0%	13.4 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSC–SEA	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Seattle	239	88.7%	-2.7 min	0.4%
PSC–SLC	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Salt Lake City	89	96.6%	-10.0 min	0.0%
PSC–DEN	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Denver	61	77.0%	-4.0 min	0.0%
PSC–SFO	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to San Francisco	60	76.7%	5.0 min	0.0%
PSC–MSP	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Minneapolis	31	93.5%	-9.9 min	0.0%
PSC–LAS	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Las Vegas	13	76.9%	5.8 min	0.0%
PSC–AZA	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Phoenix	11	72.7%	22.3 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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	48.7%	41.3%	1,187
Late-arriving aircraft	34.3%	40.5%	837
National Aviation System	9.4%	14.4%	228
Extreme weather	5.7%	3.7%	140
Security	1.8%	0.2%	45

2,437 delay minutes on 65 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 October 2023?

89.3% of 504 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 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 October 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.