OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

West Palm Beach to Islip

1,052 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on PBI–ISP arrive on time 76% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate76%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.4%of scheduled flights

based on 1,122 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.1%
    Flights730
  • JetBlue Airways
    On-time78%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.9%
    Flights330
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time66%
    Medianon time
    p9090 min
    Cancel1.6%
    Flights62

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline17%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)11%
  • Late aircraft69%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly PBI → ISP

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

Best time of day

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

  • Mornings88% on time · p90 15 min · 705 flights
  • Middays77% on time · p90 40 min · 1,270 flights
  • Afternoons69% on time · p90 55 min · 458 flights
  • Overnights64% on time · p90 100 min · 298 flights
  • Evenings62% on time · p90 100 min · 305 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 69% to 80% on time.

  • Tuesdays80% on time · p90 40 min · 449 flights
  • Wednesdays79% on time · p90 35 min · 392 flights
  • Mondays77% on time · p90 45 min · 404 flights
  • Saturdays77% on time · p90 50 min · 446 flights
  • Fridays73% on time · p90 45 min · 417 flights
  • Thursdays73% on time · p90 55 min · 452 flights
  • Sundays69% on time · p90 75 min · 476 flights
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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.