Mercedita in August 2023

61.7%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 107 domestic departures from Mercedita (PSE). 61.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 60.7% reached their destination on time; 1.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so PSE departures were 15.0 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PSE that month were on time 50.5% of the time (107 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 73%, air carrier 18% and national aviation system 8%.

On time 60.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 37.4%
Cancelled 1.9%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from PSE 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	PSE, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Aug 2023
Departed on time	61.7%	—	87.9%	76.7%
Arrived on time	60.7%	—	87.1%	76.9%
Cancelled	1.9%	—	1.9%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	40.3 min	—	7.9 min	17.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	4	—	2	20,100
Scheduled departures	107	—	692	602,987

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways	62	58%	62.9%	38.9 min	1.6%
NK Spirit Airlines	31	29%	64.5%	22.0 min	3.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines	14	13%	42.9%	33.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSE–MCO	Ponce to Orlando	76	63.2%	30.0 min	2.6%
PSE–JFK	Ponce to New York	31	54.8%	41.1 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	17.8%	36.7%	755
Late-arriving aircraft	72.5%	42.2%	3,075
National Aviation System	8.4%	15.7%	355
Extreme weather	1.3%	5.1%	54
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

4,239 delay minutes on 40 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 PSE on time in August 2023?

61.7% of 107 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 60.7% 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 PSE · methodology · corrections.