OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Portland to Santa Rosa

489 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on PDX–STS arrive on time 80% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate80%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay30 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.4%of scheduled flights

based on 536 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights536

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline39%
  • Weather30%
  • Air traffic (NAS)13%
  • Late aircraft18%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline0%
  • Weather50%
  • Air traffic (NAS)50%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 2 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly PDX → STS

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 74% to 84% on time.

  • Afternoons84% on time · p90 20 min · 415 flights
  • Evenings79% on time · p90 30 min · 263 flights
  • Mornings74% on time · p90 45 min · 339 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 76% to 84% on time.

  • Thursdays84% on time · p90 20 min · 161 flights · limited
  • Saturdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 132 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays82% on time · p90 25 min · 141 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays80% on time · p90 25 min · 133 flights · limited
  • Fridays77% on time · p90 35 min · 163 flights · limited
  • Mondays77% on time · p90 45 min · 159 flights · limited
  • Sundays76% on time · p90 40 min · 163 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.