Palm Springs International in September 2023

85.6%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 752 domestic departures from Palm Springs International (PSP). 85.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.6% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so PSP departures were 5.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PSP that month were on time 81.5% of the time (755 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 51%, late-arriving aircraft 34% and national aviation system 14%.

On time 86.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.2%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from PSP in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	PSP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	85.6%	—	79.5%	80.5%
Arrived on time	86.6%	—	78.5%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	1.3%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.6 min	—	16.7 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	25	—	41	18,978
Scheduled departures	752	—	15,067	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	393	52%	86.0%	0.7 min	0.3%
WN Southwest Airlines	176	23%	84.1%	4.4 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	89	12%	95.5%	-13.5 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	32	4%	81.3%	-5.8 min	3.1%
AS Alaska Airlines	30	4%	80.0%	-4.7 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	25	3%	100.0%	-20.4 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	7	1%	71.4%	124.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSP–SFO	Palm Springs to San Francisco	176	80.7%	5.2 min	0.0%
PSP–DEN	Palm Springs to Denver	114	83.3%	1.1 min	0.9%
PSP–PHX	Palm Springs to Phoenix	105	93.3%	-4.4 min	1.0%
PSP–SLC	Palm Springs to Salt Lake City	82	96.3%	-8.5 min	0.0%
PSP–SEA	Palm Springs to Seattle	67	80.6%	11.4 min	0.0%
PSP–DFW	Palm Springs to Dallas/Fort Worth	60	96.7%	-20.9 min	0.0%
PSP–LAS	Palm Springs to Las Vegas	56	80.4%	8.3 min	0.0%
PSP–OAK	Palm Springs to Oakland	30	83.3%	5.2 min	0.0%
PSP–SJC	Palm Springs to San Jose	30	80.0%	1.8 min	0.0%
PSP–SMF	Palm Springs to Sacramento	30	96.7%	-5.7 min	0.0%
PSP–ORD	Palm Springs to Chicago	2	100.0%	-4.0 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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	50.5%	36.4%	4,377
Late-arriving aircraft	34.1%	38.3%	2,956
National Aviation System	14.3%	19.9%	1,235
Extreme weather	1.1%	5.1%	95
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

8,663 delay minutes on 99 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 PSP on time in September 2023?

85.6% of 752 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 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 September 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for PSP · methodology · corrections.