Tri Cities in February 2024

87.6%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 February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 354 domestic departures from Tri Cities (PSC). 87.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.6% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so PSC departures were 3.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PSC that month were on time 85.4% of the time (355 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 50%, late-arriving aircraft 25% and national aviation system 13%.

On time 85.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.0%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.6%

Every scheduled departure from PSC in February 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

February 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	PSC, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	87.6%	—	88.0%	84.0%
Arrived on time	85.6%	—	86.7%	83.4%
Cancelled	0.8%	—	0.5%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.7 min	—	12.2 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	12	—	17	17,307
Scheduled departures	354	—	6,190	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	304	86%	85.9%	-0.3 min	0.7%
AS Alaska Airlines	29	8%	79.3%	-5.7 min	3.4%
G4 Allegiant Air	21	6%	90.5%	-2.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSC–SEA	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Seattle	110	87.3%	-8.4 min	0.9%
PSC–SLC	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Salt Lake City	78	91.0%	-5.8 min	0.0%
PSC–DEN	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Denver	58	86.2%	1.6 min	0.0%
PSC–SFO	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to San Francisco	43	55.8%	28.2 min	4.7%
PSC–MSP	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Minneapolis	29	96.6%	3.1 min	0.0%
PSC–PHX	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Phoenix	15	100.0%	-12.0 min	0.0%
PSC–AZA	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Phoenix	13	92.3%	-0.2 min	0.0%
PSC–LAS	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Las Vegas	8	87.5%	-5.0 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), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	50.3%	35.9%	1,678
Late-arriving aircraft	24.9%	36.9%	831
National Aviation System	13.3%	21.7%	444
Extreme weather	10.9%	5.3%	363
Security	0.7%	0.3%	23

3,339 delay minutes on 46 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 February 2024?

87.6% of 354 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 2023 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 February 2024; 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.