On-Time Report

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Airport month · July 2025

Tucson International in July 2025

81.0%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 July 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,441 domestic departures from Tucson International (TUS). 81.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.5% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 69.7% of flights departed on time and 69.0% arrived on time, so TUS departures were 11.3 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in July 2024, the airport had 1,392 departures with 79.5% leaving on time: a change of +1.5 points, with flights up 4%.

Flights arriving at TUS that month were on time 72.9% of the time (1,441 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 37%, air carrier 36% and national aviation system 15%.

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

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

MeasureJul 2025Jul 2024TUS, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jul 2025
Departed on time81.0%79.5%82.2%69.7%
Arrived on time81.5%76.9%82.6%69.0%
Cancelled0.9%1.6%1.0%2.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)17.9 min17.2 min14.0 min24.3 min
Scheduled departures a day48465421,048
Scheduled departures1,4411,39219,536631,428

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines64545%86.5%0.0 min0.3%
WN Southwest Airlines34024%79.7%8.1 min0.0%
AA American Airlines26719%69.7%38.7 min3.7%
DL Delta Air Lines624%93.5%-7.9 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air473%89.4%0.7 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines312%96.8%-2.8 min0.0%
UA United Airlines312%48.4%35.4 min3.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines181%83.3%11.9 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
TUS–PHXTucson to Phoenix26284.7%9.0 min0.4%
TUS–LAXTucson to Los Angeles20982.8%1.7 min0.0%
TUS–DENTucson to Denver16468.3%19.6 min1.2%
TUS–DFWTucson to Dallas/Fort Worth15969.8%36.0 min3.8%
TUS–LASTucson to Las Vegas9884.7%4.4 min0.0%
TUS–SEATucson to Seattle9394.6%-5.4 min0.0%
TUS–ORDTucson to Chicago9268.5%32.2 min4.3%
TUS–SLCTucson to Salt Lake City9297.8%-10.1 min0.0%
TUS–SFOTucson to San Francisco8380.7%3.5 min0.0%
TUS–ATLTucson to Atlanta6293.5%-7.9 min0.0%
TUS–SANTucson to San Diego5778.9%9.1 min0.0%
TUS–HOUTucson to Houston3183.9%3.1 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), July 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jul 2025Minutes
Air carrier36.4%31.1%8,771
Late-arriving aircraft36.6%40.8%8,813
National Aviation System15.1%20.7%3,632
Extreme weather11.8%7.3%2,848
Security0.0%0.1%0
24,064 delay minutes on 248 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 TUS on time in July 2025?

81.0% of 1,441 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 69.7% and 69.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In July 2024, 79.5% of 1,392 departures left on time and 1.6% were cancelled, against 81.0% and 0.9% in July 2025.

Provenance

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