Flights Palm Springs → Denver
PSP → DEN
Route overview
The flight route from Palm Springs to Denver, operated by an Airbus A319 aircraft, has a high on-time performance rate of 80%, with an average delay of 11.1 minutes per flight. The destination airport in Denver, which opened in 1989 and serves over 82 million passengers annually, is one of the busiest airports in the United States.
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 Palm Springs (PSP) → Denver (DEN) route is operated by Frontier Airlines, United Airlines. Across 765 flights monitored in recent months, 81% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 10 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.52%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 16.4/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Denver the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Palm Springs the average ATFM delay is 3.9 minutes.
Heading to Denver: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Palm Springs (PSP) to Denver (DEN) heads north-east for about 1,247 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 59m.
Departures from Palm Springs on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 47% of PSP-DEN flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Palm Springs the average ATFM delay is 3.9 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into Denver it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 765 tracked PSP-DEN flights, 81% left on time with an average delay of 10 min and a 0.5% 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% |
| Frontier Airlines (F9) | 74% | 15 min | 2.2% |
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Frequently asked questions about PSP-DEN
On the Palm Springs (PSP) -> Denver (DEN) route, on-time performance is 81% with an average delay of 10 minutes, based on 765 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Palm Springs-Denver is 0.52% across 765 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 2 airlines: Frontier Airlines, 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.
