Bob Hope in May 2024

79.2%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 2,327 domestic departures from Bob Hope (BUR). 79.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.0% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so BUR departures were 5.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at BUR that month were on time 76.0% of the time (2,327 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, national aviation system 32% and air carrier 18%.

On time 79.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.0%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	BUR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	79.2%	—	79.9%	73.4%
Arrived on time	79.0%	—	80.9%	72.3%
Cancelled	0.6%	—	1.3%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.2 min	—	13.4 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	78	—	82	20,325
Scheduled departures	2,327	—	29,940	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,372	59%	84.2%	1.6 min	0.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines	312	13%	68.3%	10.3 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	172	7%	72.7%	4.8 min	0.6%
UA United Airlines	158	7%	68.4%	12.4 min	0.6%
NK Spirit Airlines	134	6%	74.6%	11.1 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	124	5%	78.2%	3.0 min	5.6%
B6 JetBlue Airways	31	1%	58.1%	15.9 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	24	1%	95.8%	5.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BUR–LAS	Burbank to Las Vegas	358	81.3%	3.4 min	0.3%
BUR–PHX	Burbank to Phoenix	271	87.8%	-1.8 min	0.0%
BUR–OAK	Burbank to Oakland	262	84.0%	2.5 min	1.5%
BUR–SFO	Burbank to San Francisco	232	53.0%	22.9 min	0.4%
BUR–SMF	Burbank to Sacramento	220	81.8%	1.8 min	0.5%
BUR–SJC	Burbank to San Jose	169	85.2%	1.2 min	0.0%
BUR–DEN	Burbank to Denver	162	81.5%	3.5 min	0.0%
BUR–SEA	Burbank to Seattle	120	66.7%	6.8 min	0.8%
BUR–SLC	Burbank to Salt Lake City	109	86.2%	1.0 min	0.0%
BUR–PDX	Burbank to Portland	99	86.9%	-1.0 min	0.0%
BUR–DFW	Burbank to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	72.6%	6.5 min	11.3%
BUR–ABQ	Burbank to Albuquerque	31	93.5%	-1.5 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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	17.5%	29.8%	4,735
Late-arriving aircraft	47.6%	43.0%	12,921
National Aviation System	32.3%	20.1%	8,767
Extreme weather	2.5%	7.0%	688
Security	0.1%	0.1%	19

27,130 delay minutes on 466 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 May 2024?

79.2% of 2,327 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.