Palm Springs International in August 2025

82.0%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 August 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 738 domestic departures from Palm Springs International (PSP). 82.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.5% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.8% of flights departed on time and 76.3% arrived on time, so PSP departures were 5.2 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in August 2024, the airport had 631 departures with 82.9% leaving on time: a change of −0.9 points, with flights up 17%.

Flights arriving at PSP that month were on time 76.9% of the time (741 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 39%, late-arriving aircraft 34% and national aviation system 25%.

On time 80.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.4%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.8%

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

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

Measure	Aug 2025	Aug 2024	PSP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Aug 2025
Departed on time	82.0%	82.9%	79.5%	76.8%
Arrived on time	80.5%	80.5%	78.5%	76.3%
Cancelled	0.3%	0.3%	1.3%	1.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.4 min	11.7 min	16.7 min	17.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	25	21	41	20,079
Scheduled departures	738	631	15,067	602,378

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	432	59%	84.5%	0.2 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	116	16%	81.0%	8.6 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	106	14%	65.1%	27.9 min	1.9%
UA United Airlines	44	6%	72.7%	38.4 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	31	4%	83.9%	-4.6 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	9	1%	88.9%	4.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSP–SFO	Palm Springs to San Francisco	163	77.9%	6.5 min	0.0%
PSP–DEN	Palm Springs to Denver	114	77.2%	25.6 min	0.0%
PSP–PHX	Palm Springs to Phoenix	106	76.4%	8.1 min	0.0%
PSP–SLC	Palm Springs to Salt Lake City	91	94.5%	-6.7 min	0.0%
PSP–SEA	Palm Springs to Seattle	73	80.8%	-4.7 min	0.0%
PSP–DFW	Palm Springs to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	62.9%	36.2 min	3.2%
PSP–LAS	Palm Springs to Las Vegas	37	81.1%	6.5 min	0.0%
PSP–PDX	Palm Springs to Portland	31	96.8%	-18.6 min	0.0%
PSP–SMF	Palm Springs to Sacramento	31	83.9%	0.6 min	0.0%
PSP–OAK	Palm Springs to Oakland	17	100.0%	-9.7 min	0.0%
PSP–LAX	Palm Springs to Los Angeles	13	84.6%	0.0 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), August 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Aug 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	39.0%	33.1%	4,821
Late-arriving aircraft	34.2%	40.5%	4,224
National Aviation System	24.6%	19.2%	3,042
Extreme weather	2.3%	7.0%	279
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

12,366 delay minutes on 136 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 August 2025?

82.0% of 738 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.8% and 76.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In August 2024, 82.9% of 631 departures left on time and 0.3% were cancelled, against 82.0% and 0.3% in August 2025.

Provenance

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