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Airport Reliability

VPS · Valparaiso

Destin–Fort Walton Beach Airport

81%
Departures within 15 minutes
12 min
Average departure delay
78%
Arrivals within 15 minutes
1.5%
Departures cancelled

Based on 11,018 departures and 11,019 arrivals. Data through May 2026.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

Departures from VPS departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 90% of the time, versus 70% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

Departures from VPS arrived on time 88% of the time on Wednesdays. On Sundays: 78%.

Slipping a little lately.

Departures from VPS arrived on time 80% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 83% in the three months before that.

When VPS gets messy

On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM90%(2706 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM84%(2207 flights)
  • 12–3 PM82%(2634 flights)
  • 3–6 PM71%(1915 flights)
  • 6–9 PM70%(1315 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM82%(45 flights)
On-time by weekday
  • Mon81%(1597 flights)
  • Tue84%(1180 flights)
  • Wed88%(1240 flights)
  • Thu81%(1637 flights)
  • Fri80%(1591 flights)
  • Sat78%(1853 flights)
  • Sun78%(1724 flights)
On-time trend by month
76%
May

Jun 71% → May 76% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202571%1260
July 202579%1293
August 202580%1088
September 202589%796
October 202587%932
November 202587%661
December 202584%674
January 202684%582
February 202680%595
March 202679%899
April 202683%957
May 202676%1085

Airlines departing VPS

Busiest routes from VPS

Based on 11,018 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.