Tri Cities in March 2024

91.3%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 392 domestic departures from Tri Cities (PSC). 91.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 90.8% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so PSC departures were 12.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PSC that month were on time 88.0% of the time (391 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 48%, national aviation system 40% and late-arriving aircraft 12%.

On time 90.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 8.4%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	PSC, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	91.3%	—	88.0%	78.5%
Arrived on time	90.8%	—	86.7%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.8%	—	0.5%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	5.0 min	—	12.2 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	13	—	17	19,726
Scheduled departures	392	—	6,190	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	338	86%	92.6%	-7.6 min	0.9%
AS Alaska Airlines	31	8%	83.9%	4.9 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	23	6%	73.9%	8.6 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSC–SEA	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Seattle	119	94.1%	-7.0 min	0.0%
PSC–SLC	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Salt Lake City	88	95.5%	-7.8 min	0.0%
PSC–DEN	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Denver	62	90.3%	-10.9 min	3.2%
PSC–SFO	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to San Francisco	38	73.7%	10.6 min	2.6%
PSC–MSP	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Minneapolis	31	96.8%	-14.4 min	0.0%
PSC–PHX	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Phoenix	31	93.5%	-5.8 min	0.0%
PSC–AZA	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Phoenix	14	85.7%	-5.1 min	0.0%
PSC–LAS	Pasco/Kennewick/Richland to Las Vegas	9	55.6%	29.8 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	48.1%	32.1%	915
Late-arriving aircraft	12.2%	42.1%	232
National Aviation System	39.8%	21.4%	757
Extreme weather	0.0%	4.2%	0
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

1,904 delay minutes on 33 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 March 2024?

91.3% of 392 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 90.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.