On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2025

Palm Springs International in April 2025

84.1%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,790 domestic departures from Palm Springs International (PSP). 84.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.0% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so PSP departures were 3.5 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 1,620 departures with 80.9% leaving on time: a change of +3.2 points, with flights up 10%.

Flights arriving at PSP that month were on time 83.2% of the time (1,790 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 38%, late-arriving aircraft 34% and national aviation system 26%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2025Apr 2024PSP, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time84.1%80.9%79.5%80.6%
Arrived on time80.0%78.6%78.5%79.5%
Cancelled0.6%0.7%1.3%0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)13.7 min14.4 min16.7 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day60544119,465
Scheduled departures1,7901,62015,067583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines60334%80.8%5.5 min0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines28516%74.4%7.9 min0.7%
AA American Airlines27715%73.6%20.8 min1.8%
AS Alaska Airlines22413%86.6%-1.5 min0.0%
UA United Airlines21012%82.4%4.4 min0.5%
DL Delta Air Lines1116%85.6%4.7 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air312%100.0%-9.3 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines261%53.8%12.3 min7.7%
G4 Allegiant Air231%95.7%-10.7 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
PSP–SFOPalm Springs to San Francisco27073.3%7.3 min0.0%
PSP–DENPalm Springs to Denver22270.3%14.4 min2.3%
PSP–PHXPalm Springs to Phoenix20182.6%4.7 min0.5%
PSP–SEAPalm Springs to Seattle19788.3%-2.0 min0.0%
PSP–DFWPalm Springs to Dallas/Fort Worth12066.7%31.6 min3.3%
PSP–ORDPalm Springs to Chicago10987.2%11.9 min0.0%
PSP–PDXPalm Springs to Portland9098.9%-9.3 min0.0%
PSP–SLCPalm Springs to Salt Lake City9093.3%-9.4 min0.0%
PSP–LASPalm Springs to Las Vegas7275.0%4.3 min0.0%
PSP–OAKPalm Springs to Oakland7178.9%11.4 min0.0%
PSP–LAXPalm Springs to Los Angeles6283.9%11.7 min0.0%
PSP–SMFPalm Springs to Sacramento4977.6%2.4 min0.0%

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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2025Minutes
Air carrier38.3%32.7%9,551
Late-arriving aircraft34.4%39.4%8,579
National Aviation System25.7%22.2%6,399
Extreme weather1.2%5.5%310
Security0.3%0.2%66
24,905 delay minutes on 345 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left PSP on time in April 2025?

84.1% of 1,790 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 80.9% of 1,620 departures left on time and 0.7% were cancelled, against 84.1% and 0.6% in April 2025.

Provenance

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