OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Philadelphia to Knoxville

554 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on PHL–TYS arrive on time 65% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate65%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay100 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled5.4%of scheduled flights

based on 349 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • PSA Airlines
    On-time65%
    Medianon time
    p90100 min
    Cancel5.4%
    Flights349

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline24%
  • Weather8%
  • Air traffic (NAS)21%
  • Late aircraft47%
  • 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 PHL → TYS

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

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 69% to 84% on time.

  • Mornings84% on time · p90 40 min · 183 flights · limited
  • Middays83% on time · p90 25 min · 54 flights · limited
  • Evenings71% on time · p90 70 min · 953 flights
  • Afternoons69% on time · p90 80 min · 144 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 65% to 80% on time.

  • Wednesdays80% on time · p90 35 min · 179 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays80% on time · p90 50 min · 198 flights · limited
  • Mondays75% on time · p90 70 min · 189 flights · limited
  • Sundays72% on time · p90 65 min · 201 flights
  • Thursdays70% on time · p90 60 min · 199 flights · limited
  • Saturdays69% on time · p90 70 min · 180 flights · limited
  • Fridays65% on time · p90 110 min · 188 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.