Mercedita in November 2023

93.3%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 November 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 104 domestic departures from Mercedita (PSE). 93.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 89.4% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 86.0% of flights departed on time and 86.2% arrived on time, so PSE departures were 7.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PSE that month were on time 78.8% of the time (104 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 63%, national aviation system 31% and air carrier 5%.

On time 89.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 10.6%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from PSE 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	PSE, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2023
Departed on time	93.3%	—	87.9%	86.0%
Arrived on time	89.4%	—	87.1%	86.2%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	1.9%	0.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	4.1 min	—	7.9 min	9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day	4	—	2	18,793
Scheduled departures	104	—	692	563,777

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
B6 JetBlue Airways	57	55%	96.5%	-21.4 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	29	28%	86.2%	2.7 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	18	17%	72.2%	9.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSE–MCO	Ponce to Orlando	75	86.7%	-8.3 min	0.0%
PSE–JFK	Ponce to New York	29	96.6%	-12.2 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	5.3%	42.5%	22
Late-arriving aircraft	63.3%	37.3%	264
National Aviation System	31.4%	16.2%	131
Extreme weather	0.0%	3.7%	0
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

417 delay minutes on 11 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 November 2023?

93.3% of 104 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 89.4% 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 PSE · methodology · corrections.