Palm Springs International in April 2024

80.9%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,620 domestic departures from Palm Springs International (PSP). 80.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.6% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so PSP departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at PSP that month were on time 79.9% of the time (1,622 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 35%, national aviation system 34% and late-arriving aircraft 26%.

On time 78.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.2%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.4%

Every scheduled departure from PSP in April 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	PSP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	80.9%	—	79.5%	80.5%
Arrived on time	78.6%	—	78.5%	80.2%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	1.3%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.4 min	—	16.7 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	54	—	41	19,406
Scheduled departures	1,620	—	15,067	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	550	34%	72.5%	15.9 min	1.1%
WN Southwest Airlines	305	19%	83.9%	1.1 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	223	14%	82.5%	-2.5 min	0.4%
AA American Airlines	207	13%	80.7%	3.8 min	1.4%
UA United Airlines	172	11%	75.0%	8.6 min	0.6%
DL Delta Air Lines	90	6%	82.2%	0.7 min	0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways	30	2%	90.0%	-8.3 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	27	2%	85.2%	1.6 min	3.7%
G4 Allegiant Air	16	1%	93.8%	-10.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSP–SFO	Palm Springs to San Francisco	226	46.5%	35.0 min	0.9%
PSP–SEA	Palm Springs to Seattle	210	84.8%	-3.4 min	1.0%
PSP–DEN	Palm Springs to Denver	187	82.9%	6.9 min	0.0%
PSP–PHX	Palm Springs to Phoenix	142	83.1%	3.5 min	0.0%
PSP–ORD	Palm Springs to Chicago	122	82.0%	0.9 min	0.8%
PSP–DFW	Palm Springs to Dallas/Fort Worth	96	82.3%	0.7 min	3.1%
PSP–SLC	Palm Springs to Salt Lake City	90	87.8%	16.1 min	1.1%
PSP–LAS	Palm Springs to Las Vegas	73	74.0%	9.1 min	0.0%
PSP–OAK	Palm Springs to Oakland	70	87.1%	-4.5 min	0.0%
PSP–PDX	Palm Springs to Portland	68	86.8%	-7.2 min	1.5%
PSP–JFK	Palm Springs to New York	52	73.1%	9.1 min	0.0%
PSP–SMF	Palm Springs to Sacramento	50	88.0%	-1.7 min	0.0%

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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	35.4%	33.6%	8,043
Late-arriving aircraft	25.8%	41.0%	5,857
National Aviation System	34.4%	20.0%	7,811
Extreme weather	4.4%	5.1%	1,008
Security	0.0%	0.2%	6

22,725 delay minutes on 327 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 April 2024?

80.9% of 1,620 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.