Bob Hope in January 2024

82.0%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 2,330 domestic departures from Bob Hope (BUR). 82.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.8% reached their destination on time; 2.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so BUR departures were 8.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BUR that month were on time 79.5% of the time (2,330 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 45%, air carrier 31% and national aviation system 22%.

On time 80.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.9%
Cancelled 2.1%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from BUR in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	BUR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	82.0%	—	79.9%	74.0%
Arrived on time	80.8%	—	80.9%	72.9%
Cancelled	2.1%	—	1.3%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.2 min	—	13.4 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	78	—	82	18,242
Scheduled departures	2,330	—	29,940	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,483	64%	85.0%	-0.6 min	1.3%
OO SkyWest Airlines	411	18%	73.7%	6.4 min	0.2%
AS Alaska Airlines	172	7%	70.9%	1.1 min	14.0%
AA American Airlines	115	5%	70.4%	31.7 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	78	3%	83.3%	-2.0 min	2.6%
UA United Airlines	40	2%	70.0%	11.7 min	5.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways	31	1%	77.4%	-1.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BUR–LAS	Burbank to Las Vegas	369	81.3%	2.4 min	1.4%
BUR–SFO	Burbank to San Francisco	293	72.7%	5.8 min	0.3%
BUR–OAK	Burbank to Oakland	259	88.8%	-0.9 min	1.2%
BUR–PHX	Burbank to Phoenix	252	79.8%	11.8 min	0.0%
BUR–SMF	Burbank to Sacramento	216	86.1%	-3.1 min	1.4%
BUR–SJC	Burbank to San Jose	194	85.6%	-1.8 min	2.6%
BUR–DEN	Burbank to Denver	149	83.9%	0.1 min	2.7%
BUR–SLC	Burbank to Salt Lake City	122	82.8%	2.8 min	0.0%
BUR–SEA	Burbank to Seattle	117	71.8%	1.2 min	11.1%
BUR–PDX	Burbank to Portland	79	69.6%	0.8 min	15.2%
BUR–DFW	Burbank to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	67.7%	17.2 min	0.0%
BUR–DAL	Burbank to Dallas	31	93.5%	-6.1 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

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

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	30.5%	32.6%	7,158
Late-arriving aircraft	45.1%	39.0%	10,609
National Aviation System	22.0%	17.9%	5,164
Extreme weather	2.4%	10.3%	569
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

23,500 delay minutes on 394 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 January 2024?

82.0% of 2,330 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 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 January 2024; 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.