Palm Springs International in November 2025

80.5%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 November 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,413 domestic departures from Palm Springs International (PSP). 80.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.1% reached their destination on time; 1.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.1% of flights departed on time and 77.3% arrived on time, so PSP departures were 2.4 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in November 2024, the airport had 1,300 departures with 87.0% leaving on time: a change of −6.5 points, with flights up 9%.

Flights arriving at PSP that month were on time 79.8% of the time (1,415 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 39%, air carrier 29% and late-arriving aircraft 29%.

On time 79.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.0%
Cancelled 1.6%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2025	Nov 2024	PSP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2025
Departed on time	80.5%	87.0%	79.5%	78.1%
Arrived on time	79.1%	84.5%	78.5%	77.3%
Cancelled	1.6%	0.7%	1.3%	2.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.1 min	8.7 min	16.7 min	15.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	47	43	41	19,018
Scheduled departures	1,413	1,300	15,067	570,550

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	594	42%	76.9%	5.2 min	2.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	217	15%	79.7%	7.3 min	0.5%
AA American Airlines	182	13%	76.9%	3.3 min	2.7%
AS Alaska Airlines	164	12%	85.4%	-7.1 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	141	10%	80.9%	5.8 min	0.7%
DL Delta Air Lines	85	6%	84.7%	-8.2 min	3.5%
F9 Frontier Airlines	13	1%	61.5%	49.7 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	13	1%	92.3%	-13.8 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	4	0%	25.0%	32.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
PSP–SFO	Palm Springs to San Francisco	238	65.5%	22.6 min	1.7%
PSP–DEN	Palm Springs to Denver	200	85.5%	-0.6 min	0.5%
PSP–SEA	Palm Springs to Seattle	165	89.1%	-11.5 min	0.6%
PSP–PHX	Palm Springs to Phoenix	130	70.8%	5.9 min	3.8%
PSP–ORD	Palm Springs to Chicago	97	69.1%	17.4 min	4.1%
PSP–DFW	Palm Springs to Dallas/Fort Worth	87	80.5%	2.8 min	2.3%
PSP–SLC	Palm Springs to Salt Lake City	86	94.2%	-13.5 min	2.3%
PSP–LAS	Palm Springs to Las Vegas	72	79.2%	10.9 min	0.0%
PSP–PDX	Palm Springs to Portland	60	91.7%	-10.9 min	0.0%
PSP–LAX	Palm Springs to Los Angeles	49	81.6%	4.1 min	0.0%
PSP–SMF	Palm Springs to Sacramento	44	75.0%	-0.1 min	0.0%
PSP–JFK	Palm Springs to New York	33	72.7%	-1.6 min	3.0%

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), November 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	29.2%	30.2%	5,619
Late-arriving aircraft	28.6%	38.3%	5,493
National Aviation System	39.0%	26.7%	7,498
Extreme weather	3.1%	4.6%	605
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

19,215 delay minutes on 269 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 November 2025?

80.5% of 1,413 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.1% and 77.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In November 2024, 87.0% of 1,300 departures left on time and 0.7% were cancelled, against 80.5% and 1.6% in November 2025.

Provenance

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