Tri Cities in November 2023

85.4%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 November 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 424 domestic departures from Tri Cities (PSC). 85.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.9% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 86.0% of flights departed on time and 86.2% arrived on time, so PSC departures were 0.6 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PSC that month were on time 86.6% of the time (424 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, extreme weather 40%, air carrier 32% and national aviation system 16%.

On time 80.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.6%
Cancelled 0.2%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2023	Year earlier	PSC, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2023
Departed on time	85.4%	—	88.0%	86.0%
Arrived on time	80.9%	—	86.7%	86.2%
Cancelled	0.2%	—	0.5%	0.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	17.8 min	—	12.2 min	9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day	14	—	17	18,793
Scheduled departures	424	—	6,190	563,777

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	315	74%	82.9%	10.2 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	57	13%	66.7%	18.3 min	1.8%
DL Delta Air Lines	30	7%	90.0%	-17.5 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	22	5%	77.3%	13.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSC–SEA	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Seattle	173	75.1%	14.3 min	0.6%
PSC–SLC	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Salt Lake City	81	93.8%	0.6 min	0.0%
PSC–DEN	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Denver	59	76.3%	14.2 min	0.0%
PSC–SFO	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to San Francisco	59	81.4%	15.3 min	0.0%
PSC–MSP	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Minneapolis	30	90.0%	-17.5 min	0.0%
PSC–AZA	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Phoenix	11	72.7%	29.1 min	0.0%
PSC–LAS	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Las Vegas	11	81.8%	-1.6 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), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	31.7%	42.5%	2,319
Late-arriving aircraft	12.1%	37.3%	888
National Aviation System	16.0%	16.2%	1,171
Extreme weather	39.9%	3.7%	2,926
Security	0.3%	0.3%	21

7,325 delay minutes on 79 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 November 2023?

85.4% of 424 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 86.0% and 86.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 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 November 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.