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LAS to PSP flight delays

Las Vegas, NV (LAS) Palm Springs, CA (PSP) · 173 miles

740 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

72.17%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

0.95%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

49 min

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

15 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

The season swings this route hard. In January it ran 25.1 points more punctual than in July — a difference bigger than the one between the best and worst airlines on most routes. If the date is flexible, it is worth more than the carrier.

The two directions do not behave alike. PSP to LAS arrives on time 8.3 points more often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.

Only Southwest Airlines flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.

Flights from Las Vegas to Palm Springs run late more often than the average route, though not severely.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over January 2025 – August 2026, Southwest Airlines arrived on time most often on LAS to PSP. Flights ran closest to schedule in January and worst in July.

Every airline on LAS to PSP

Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.

Airline Flights On time Cancelled Avg delay Grade
Southwest Airlines 740 72.17% 0.95% 49 min D

Month by month

Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.

Jul 2025 peak 85 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Las Vegas to Palm Springs usually delayed?

72.17% of flights on the LAS to PSP route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.

Which airlines fly from Las Vegas to Palm Springs?

Only Southwest Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 740 flights and 72.17% arriving on time.

How often are LAS to PSP flights cancelled?

0.95% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 10 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

What is the best month to fly Las Vegas to Palm Springs?

January, when 85.5% of flights arrived on time. The worst was July at 60.4%.

When LAS to PSP flights are late, how late are they?

About 49 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.

What these figures do and do not tell you

Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on LAS to PSP during January 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.

A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.

Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →