Bob Hope in September 2023

84.3%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 2,563 domestic departures from Bob Hope (BUR). 84.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.0% reached their destination on time; 1.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so BUR departures were 3.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BUR that month were on time 81.7% of the time (2,562 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 59%, air carrier 22% and national aviation system 18%.

On time 87.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 11.9%
Cancelled 1.1%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from BUR in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

September 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	BUR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	84.3%	—	79.9%	80.5%
Arrived on time	87.0%	—	80.9%	80.1%
Cancelled	1.1%	—	1.3%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	8.4 min	—	13.4 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	85	—	82	18,978
Scheduled departures	2,563	—	29,940	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,803	70%	86.7%	-1.7 min	1.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines	289	11%	88.2%	-2.3 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	193	8%	89.1%	-6.9 min	0.5%
AA American Airlines	107	4%	94.4%	-14.0 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	78	3%	78.2%	1.3 min	1.3%
MQ Envoy Air	33	1%	90.9%	-6.8 min	0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways	30	1%	63.3%	49.4 min	13.3%
UA United Airlines	30	1%	93.3%	1.8 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BUR–LAS	Burbank to Las Vegas	395	78.5%	4.5 min	2.5%
BUR–OAK	Burbank to Oakland	290	87.6%	-2.5 min	1.4%
BUR–PHX	Burbank to Phoenix	274	91.2%	-6.4 min	0.0%
BUR–SMF	Burbank to Sacramento	251	88.0%	-3.9 min	0.8%
BUR–SJC	Burbank to San Jose	250	88.8%	-1.5 min	2.0%
BUR–SFO	Burbank to San Francisco	233	79.0%	3.3 min	0.4%
BUR–SEA	Burbank to Seattle	145	86.2%	-5.4 min	0.7%
BUR–DEN	Burbank to Denver	143	91.6%	-2.5 min	0.0%
BUR–SLC	Burbank to Salt Lake City	118	94.9%	-8.9 min	0.0%
BUR–PDX	Burbank to Portland	108	96.3%	-6.5 min	0.0%
BUR–DFW	Burbank to Dallas/Fort Worth	60	93.3%	-17.2 min	0.0%
BUR–AUS	Burbank to Austin	30	90.0%	-6.4 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	21.8%	36.4%	3,559
Late-arriving aircraft	59.1%	38.3%	9,671
National Aviation System	17.5%	19.9%	2,859
Extreme weather	1.3%	5.1%	220
Security	0.3%	0.2%	47

16,356 delay minutes on 304 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left BUR on time in September 2023?

84.3% of 2,563 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 2022 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for September 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for BUR · methodology · corrections.