Bob Hope in October 2023

81.7%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 2,521 domestic departures from Bob Hope (BUR). 81.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.5% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so BUR departures were 2.1 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BUR that month were on time 81.6% of the time (2,522 scheduled arrivals).

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

On time 84.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.5%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.4%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	BUR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	81.7%	—	79.9%	83.8%
Arrived on time	84.5%	—	80.9%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	1.3%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.1 min	—	13.4 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	84	—	82	19,966
Scheduled departures	2,521	—	29,940	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,745	69%	83.6%	0.2 min	1.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	294	12%	88.8%	-2.3 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	198	8%	89.9%	-11.2 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	98	4%	78.6%	7.9 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	93	4%	84.9%	-7.2 min	1.1%
MQ Envoy Air	32	1%	96.9%	-7.3 min	0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways	31	1%	58.1%	17.0 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	30	1%	90.0%	-2.9 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BUR–LAS	Burbank to Las Vegas	405	80.2%	4.3 min	1.2%
BUR–OAK	Burbank to Oakland	283	87.6%	-3.7 min	1.8%
BUR–PHX	Burbank to Phoenix	273	85.3%	-0.8 min	0.4%
BUR–SMF	Burbank to Sacramento	243	83.5%	0.4 min	0.8%
BUR–SFO	Burbank to San Francisco	228	81.6%	1.5 min	0.0%
BUR–SJC	Burbank to San Jose	227	83.3%	-1.8 min	1.8%
BUR–SEA	Burbank to Seattle	150	88.0%	-10.9 min	0.0%
BUR–SLC	Burbank to Salt Lake City	120	92.5%	-5.7 min	0.0%
BUR–DEN	Burbank to Denver	115	88.7%	-1.3 min	0.0%
BUR–PDX	Burbank to Portland	110	91.8%	-4.8 min	0.0%
BUR–DFW	Burbank to Dallas/Fort Worth	60	83.3%	-8.9 min	1.7%
BUR–ABQ	Burbank to Albuquerque	31	87.1%	-0.6 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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	18.2%	41.3%	3,173
Late-arriving aircraft	59.4%	40.5%	10,345
National Aviation System	17.8%	14.4%	3,106
Extreme weather	4.4%	3.7%	759
Security	0.3%	0.2%	46

17,429 delay minutes on 365 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 October 2023?

81.7% of 2,521 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 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 October 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.