Palm Springs International in February 2025

80.0%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 February 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,443 domestic departures from Palm Springs International (PSP). 80.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.8% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.2% of flights departed on time and 77.9% arrived on time, so PSP departures were 0.8 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in February 2024, the airport had 1,428 departures with 78.5% leaving on time: a change of +1.5 points, with flights up 1%.

Flights arriving at PSP that month were on time 79.1% of the time (1,444 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 36%, air carrier 35% and national aviation system 28%.

On time 79.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.5%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Feb 2025	Feb 2024	PSP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2025
Departed on time	80.0%	78.5%	79.5%	79.2%
Arrived on time	79.8%	79.3%	78.5%	77.9%
Cancelled	0.6%	1.2%	1.3%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.6 min	16.2 min	16.7 min	15.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	48	48	41	16,830
Scheduled departures	1,443	1,428	15,067	504,884

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	434	30%	80.6%	1.7 min	0.5%
WN Southwest Airlines	245	17%	78.0%	4.7 min	0.4%
AS Alaska Airlines	191	13%	73.8%	2.5 min	2.1%
UA United Airlines	190	13%	84.2%	-4.3 min	0.5%
AA American Airlines	186	13%	82.8%	17.9 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	138	10%	82.6%	-3.6 min	0.7%
F9 Frontier Airlines	30	2%	56.7%	17.8 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	17	1%	70.6%	13.1 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	12	1%	100.0%	-14.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSP–SFO	Palm Springs to San Francisco	207	68.1%	15.2 min	1.4%
PSP–DEN	Palm Springs to Denver	196	80.1%	-0.4 min	0.0%
PSP–SEA	Palm Springs to Seattle	168	80.4%	0.0 min	1.2%
PSP–PHX	Palm Springs to Phoenix	130	85.4%	6.3 min	0.0%
PSP–DFW	Palm Springs to Dallas/Fort Worth	100	84.0%	4.2 min	0.0%
PSP–PDX	Palm Springs to Portland	84	78.6%	-2.0 min	1.2%
PSP–SLC	Palm Springs to Salt Lake City	84	90.5%	-13.5 min	1.2%
PSP–ORD	Palm Springs to Chicago	67	88.1%	23.6 min	0.0%
PSP–LAS	Palm Springs to Las Vegas	64	75.0%	13.8 min	1.6%
PSP–OAK	Palm Springs to Oakland	53	83.0%	-0.4 min	0.0%
PSP–MSP	Palm Springs to Minneapolis	50	90.0%	-12.6 min	0.0%
PSP–SMF	Palm Springs to Sacramento	43	76.7%	4.6 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), February 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	35.2%	33.9%	6,662
Late-arriving aircraft	35.7%	36.9%	6,750
National Aviation System	27.5%	22.5%	5,194
Extreme weather	0.7%	6.6%	126
Security	0.9%	0.1%	175

18,907 delay minutes on 281 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 February 2025?

80.0% of 1,443 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.2% and 77.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In February 2024, 78.5% of 1,428 departures left on time and 1.2% were cancelled, against 80.0% and 0.6% in February 2025.

Provenance

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