OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

New York to Palm Springs

2,378 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on JFK–PSP arrive on time 84% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate84%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay15 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled6.5%of scheduled flights

based on 31 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Alaska Airlines
    On-time84%
    Medianon time
    p9015 min
    Cancel6.5%
    Flights31

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline4%
  • Weather81%
  • Air traffic (NAS)15%
  • Late aircraft0%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Weather.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly JFK → PSP

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Middays are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 88% on time.

  • Middays88% on time · p90 15 min · 173 flights · limited
  • Mornings80% on time · p90 20 min · 201 flights
  • Evenings68% on time · p90 75 min · 197 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 75% to 86% on time.

  • Wednesdays86% on time · p90 25 min · 59 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays84% on time · p90 20 min · 77 flights · limited
  • Mondays77% on time · p90 35 min · 87 flights · limited
  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 45 min · 88 flights · limited
  • Sundays76% on time · p90 55 min · 94 flights · limited
  • Saturdays75% on time · p90 40 min · 118 flights · limited
  • Fridays75% on time · p90 35 min · 85 flights · limited
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.