Tucson International in March 2025

86.0%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 March 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 2,051 domestic departures from Tucson International (TUS). 86.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.9% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so TUS departures were 6.1 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 1,727 departures with 83.1% leaving on time: a change of +2.9 points, with flights up 19%.

Flights arriving at TUS that month were on time 79.5% of the time (2,051 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 40%, late-arriving aircraft 31% and national aviation system 24%.

On time 84.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.1%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.4%

Every scheduled departure from TUS in March 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	TUS, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	86.0%	83.1%	82.2%	79.9%
Arrived on time	84.9%	82.3%	82.6%	79.3%
Cancelled	0.5%	0.7%	1.0%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.7 min	11.5 min	14.0 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	68	58	54	20,029
Scheduled departures	2,051	1,727	19,536	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	863	42%	84.9%	2.8 min	0.2%
WN Southwest Airlines	427	21%	86.2%	-2.1 min	0.2%
AA American Airlines	304	15%	78.9%	8.1 min	2.3%
UA United Airlines	201	10%	90.0%	-0.4 min	0.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	151	7%	87.4%	-2.5 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	59	3%	86.4%	-2.5 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	33	2%	81.8%	-1.9 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	13	1%	76.9%	28.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
TUS–PHX	Tucson to Phoenix	334	79.0%	9.8 min	0.0%
TUS–DEN	Tucson to Denver	283	89.4%	-1.6 min	0.0%
TUS–LAX	Tucson to Los Angeles	249	87.1%	1.8 min	0.4%
TUS–DFW	Tucson to Dallas/Fort Worth	215	77.2%	9.7 min	3.3%
TUS–ORD	Tucson to Chicago	118	85.6%	-0.7 min	0.8%
TUS–LAS	Tucson to Las Vegas	117	83.8%	-3.0 min	0.0%
TUS–SFO	Tucson to San Francisco	93	80.6%	4.9 min	1.1%
TUS–SLC	Tucson to Salt Lake City	93	94.6%	-12.8 min	0.0%
TUS–SEA	Tucson to Seattle	90	86.7%	-4.2 min	0.0%
TUS–ATL	Tucson to Atlanta	89	91.0%	-7.2 min	0.0%
TUS–IAH	Tucson to Houston	62	88.7%	14.8 min	0.0%
TUS–SAN	Tucson to San Diego	55	83.6%	-1.3 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), March 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	40.4%	33.0%	8,253
Late-arriving aircraft	30.8%	39.2%	6,290
National Aviation System	23.5%	21.9%	4,797
Extreme weather	5.3%	5.9%	1,080
Security	0.1%	0.1%	14

20,434 delay minutes on 290 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 TUS on time in March 2025?

86.0% of 2,051 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 83.1% of 1,727 departures left on time and 0.7% were cancelled, against 86.0% and 0.5% in March 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for March 2025; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for TUS · methodology · corrections.