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Port Lincoln Airport
Port Lincoln · PLO · AU

How reliable is Port Lincoln Airport?

Flights from PLO avoided significant airline-controlled delay in 83% of 17,796 flights in official BITRE history. Here’s the full picture before you book.

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Reliability score

on-time, cancellations & delays

IATA / ICAO
PLO · YPLC
Time zone
Australia/Adelaide
Coordinates
-34.61, 135.88

Origin-airport operations

What the airline-controlled delay record at PLO looks like

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Avoided 15+ min controlled delay

across 17,796 flights

83%
Controlled-delay record
avoided 15+ min airline-controlled delay
4.0%
Cancellation rate
of scheduled departures
0 min
Avg. arrival delay
across delayed flights
17,796
Flights analyzed
high confidence

Source: BITRE. Origin-grouped, cause-attributed operational history; it is not a direct departure-punctuality measure or a guarantee for any flight.

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Weather by month

Weather history isn’t available for PLO yet

PlaneSane shows month-by-month airport weather once enough historical METAR/IEM observations are loaded for the airport. This does not mean the airport has no weather data forever; it means the current climatology table has no monthly coverage for Port Lincoln Airport.

The read on PLO

What the numbers say about flying through Port Lincoln Airport

Across official performance history, flights from Port Lincoln avoided significant airline-controlled delay about 83% of the time over 17,796 flights. That's a solid, better-than-average operational record. Pair it with an elevated cancellation rate of 4.0% — worth weighing alongside the on-time figure. When a departure does run late, the typical delay is around 0 minutes.

None of this guarantees your specific flight — it’s the backdrop. To turn it into a booking, score real flights to Port Lincoln, read how we weigh it all in how the PlaneSane Score works, and brush up with how to pick a reliable flight and avoiding weather delays.

Common questions about PLO

How reliable is Port Lincoln Airport (PLO)?
Flights from Port Lincoln avoided significant airline-controlled delay roughly 83% of the time across 17,796 flights of official history — a solid, better-than-average operational record. The cancellation rate runs about 4.0%. It's advisory context, not a guarantee for any single flight.

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