OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

West Palm Beach to Washington

858 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on PBI–IAD arrive on time 78% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate78%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay25 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.4%of scheduled flights

based on 74 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • United Airlines
    On-time78%
    Medianon time
    p9025 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights74

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline23%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)32%
  • Late aircraft45%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

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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.