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Route Reliability

Oakland → Palm Springs

OAK–PSP · 418 miles · Oakland International Airport to Palm Springs International Airport

85
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
80%
Arrive within 15 minutes
4 min
Average arrival delay
0.6%
Cancelled
487
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines80% on time · 486 flights
  • Alaska Airlines100% on time · 1 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

OAK–PSP flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 96% of the time, versus 53% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

OAK–PSP flights arrived on time 89% of the time on Wednesdays and just 73% on Fridays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

OAK–PSP flights arrived on time 72% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 85% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon78%(81 flights)
  • Tue83%(57 flights)
  • Wed89%(56 flights)
  • Thu75%(83 flights)
  • Fri73%(84 flights)
  • Sat83%(47 flights)
  • Sun84%(75 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM96%(68 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM94%(79 flights)
  • 12–3 PM76%(132 flights)
  • 3–6 PM57%(85 flights)
  • 6–9 PM87%(102 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM53%(17 flights)
On-time trend by month
64%
May

Jun 97% → May 64% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202597%31
July 202596%27
August 202588%17
September 202571%17
October 202580%30
November 202579%33
December 202585%33
January 202680%35
February 202689%46
March 202683%75
April 202670%70
May 202664%69

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 487 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.