STL to PBI flight delays

St. Louis, MO (STL) West Palm Beach/Palm Beach, FL (PBI) · 1,023 miles

71 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

60.56%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

0%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

63 min

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

26 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

This is a late route. Flights from St. Louis to West Palm Beach/Palm Beach miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.

This route does worse than its own airport. STL as a whole runs 17.1 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.

The two directions do not behave alike. PBI to STL arrives on time 9.9 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.

Every airline on STL to PBI

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 71 60.56% 0% 63 min

Month by month

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

Mar 2025 peak 100 Apr 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from St. Louis to West Palm Beach/Palm Beach usually delayed?

60.56% of flights on the STL to PBI route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 4 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.

How often are STL to PBI flights cancelled?

0% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 1 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.

When STL to PBI flights are late, how late are they?

About 63 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 STL to PBI during July 2024 – July 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 →