OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

St. Louis to Pensacola

598 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on STL–PNS arrive on time 89% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate89%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay15 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.0%of scheduled flights

based on 168 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time89%
    Medianon time
    p9015 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights168

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline37%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)16%
  • Late aircraft46%
  • 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 STL → PNS

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 66% to 92% on time.

  • Mornings92% on time · p90 10 min · 238 flights
  • Middays87% on time · p90 20 min · 215 flights
  • Afternoons66% on time · p90 55 min · 79 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 80% to 94% on time.

  • Tuesdays94% on time · p90 5 min · 53 flights · limited
  • Mondays93% on time · p90 10 min · 54 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays91% on time · p90 10 min · 53 flights · limited
  • Fridays89% on time · p90 15 min · 54 flights · limited
  • Thursdays87% on time · p90 20 min · 54 flights · limited
  • Sundays80% on time · p90 30 min · 129 flights · limited
  • Saturdays80% on time · p90 30 min · 153 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.