Palm Springs International in January 2025

88.2%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 January 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,446 domestic departures from Palm Springs International (PSP). 88.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.6% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so PSP departures were 8.9 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 1,431 departures with 79.0% leaving on time: a change of +9.2 points, with flights up 1%.

Flights arriving at PSP that month were on time 86.4% of the time (1,447 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 42%, late-arriving aircraft 32% and national aviation system 13%.

On time 87.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 11.7%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from PSP in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2025	Jan 2024	PSP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time	88.2%	79.0%	79.5%	79.3%
Arrived on time	87.6%	77.3%	78.5%	78.6%
Cancelled	0.5%	4.1%	1.3%	3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.7 min	13.4 min	16.7 min	14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	48	48	41	17,992
Scheduled departures	1,446	1,431	15,067	539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	477	33%	88.1%	-1.2 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	207	14%	88.9%	-7.0 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	195	13%	89.7%	-6.8 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	188	13%	84.6%	-4.0 min	0.5%
AA American Airlines	171	12%	84.8%	3.2 min	2.9%
DL Delta Air Lines	145	10%	91.0%	-7.9 min	0.7%
F9 Frontier Airlines	24	2%	70.8%	16.7 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	24	2%	95.8%	-7.5 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	15	1%	80.0%	-5.9 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSP–SFO	Palm Springs to San Francisco	207	81.6%	1.1 min	0.0%
PSP–DEN	Palm Springs to Denver	199	89.9%	-3.1 min	0.0%
PSP–SEA	Palm Springs to Seattle	183	89.1%	-5.5 min	0.0%
PSP–PHX	Palm Springs to Phoenix	135	89.6%	-2.3 min	0.0%
PSP–DFW	Palm Springs to Dallas/Fort Worth	96	82.3%	-1.3 min	5.2%
PSP–SLC	Palm Springs to Salt Lake City	92	89.1%	-3.7 min	0.0%
PSP–PDX	Palm Springs to Portland	88	94.3%	-11.7 min	0.0%
PSP–ORD	Palm Springs to Chicago	69	78.3%	22.8 min	0.0%
PSP–LAS	Palm Springs to Las Vegas	63	84.1%	-3.5 min	0.0%
PSP–MSP	Palm Springs to Minneapolis	52	94.2%	-8.3 min	0.0%
PSP–OAK	Palm Springs to Oakland	40	95.0%	-13.9 min	0.0%
PSP–SMF	Palm Springs to Sacramento	36	88.9%	-6.9 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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	42.1%	36.2%	5,342
Late-arriving aircraft	31.7%	34.7%	4,026
National Aviation System	13.2%	19.9%	1,678
Extreme weather	13.0%	9.1%	1,650
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

12,696 delay minutes on 169 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 January 2025?

88.2% of 1,446 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 79.0% of 1,431 departures left on time and 4.1% were cancelled, against 88.2% and 0.5% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.