Flights Las Vegas → Palm Springs
LAS → PSP
Route overview
The flight route from Las Vegas to Palm Springs is operated by an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia aircraft and has a relatively low on-time performance rate of 63%, with an average delay of 17.1 minutes per flight. Over the past year, there have been 217 flights on this route, serving a destination airport that handles approximately 2,981,844 passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Las Vegas (LAS) → Palm Springs (PSP) route is operated by United Airlines. Across 284 flights monitored in recent months, 65% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 17 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.70%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 19.9/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Palm Springs the average ATFM delay is 3.9 minutes (main cause: airspace/NAS (BTS)). Departing from Las Vegas the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Palm Springs: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Las Vegas (LAS) to Palm Springs (PSP) heads south-west for about 279 km, a flight time of roughly 46m.
Departures from Las Vegas on this leg cluster in the midday window: about 41% of LAS-PSP flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Las Vegas the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Palm Springs it is 3.9 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 284 tracked LAS-PSP flights, 65% left on time with an average delay of 17 min and a 0.7% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (UA) | 74% | 10 min | 6.9% |
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Frequently asked questions about LAS-PSP
On the Las Vegas (LAS) -> Palm Springs (PSP) route, on-time performance is 65% with an average delay of 17 minutes, based on 284 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Las Vegas-Palm Springs is 0.70% across 284 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: United Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
