Palm Springs International in March 2024

76.5%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 1,725 domestic departures from Palm Springs International (PSP). 76.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 75.1% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so PSP departures were 2.0 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PSP that month were on time 78.9% of the time (1,723 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 38%, national aviation system 31% and air carrier 27%.

On time 75.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 23.8%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from PSP 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	PSP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	76.5%	—	79.5%	78.5%
Arrived on time	75.1%	—	78.5%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.9%	—	1.3%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	17.2 min	—	16.7 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	58	—	41	19,726
Scheduled departures	1,725	—	15,067	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	524	30%	69.1%	14.3 min	1.3%
WN Southwest Airlines	329	19%	76.0%	6.7 min	0.9%
AS Alaska Airlines	229	13%	82.1%	-0.6 min	0.4%
UA United Airlines	224	13%	75.0%	6.9 min	0.4%
AA American Airlines	219	13%	77.2%	17.4 min	0.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	144	8%	81.9%	4.4 min	0.7%
B6 JetBlue Airways	31	2%	64.5%	51.1 min	3.2%
G4 Allegiant Air	21	1%	76.2%	8.9 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	4	0%	100.0%	-9.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSP–SEA	Palm Springs to Seattle	237	87.8%	-1.7 min	0.4%
PSP–SFO	Palm Springs to San Francisco	237	40.9%	36.0 min	1.3%
PSP–DEN	Palm Springs to Denver	204	82.4%	2.9 min	1.0%
PSP–PHX	Palm Springs to Phoenix	157	79.6%	14.4 min	0.0%
PSP–DFW	Palm Springs to Dallas/Fort Worth	124	80.6%	11.2 min	0.8%
PSP–SLC	Palm Springs to Salt Lake City	93	81.7%	7.6 min	3.2%
PSP–ORD	Palm Springs to Chicago	78	80.8%	-4.0 min	0.0%
PSP–LAS	Palm Springs to Las Vegas	73	67.1%	20.5 min	1.4%
PSP–PDX	Palm Springs to Portland	73	87.7%	-2.3 min	0.0%
PSP–OAK	Palm Springs to Oakland	71	78.9%	1.7 min	1.4%
PSP–MSP	Palm Springs to Minneapolis	60	80.0%	6.7 min	1.7%
PSP–JFK	Palm Springs to New York	58	56.9%	35.8 min	1.7%

By scheduled departure hour

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	27.3%	32.1%	7,589
Late-arriving aircraft	37.5%	42.1%	10,449
National Aviation System	31.2%	21.4%	8,693
Extreme weather	3.9%	4.2%	1,085
Security	0.1%	0.2%	28

27,844 delay minutes on 410 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 March 2024?

76.5% of 1,725 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 75.1% 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 PSP · methodology · corrections.