On-Time Report

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Airport month · October 2024

Bob Hope in October 2024

82.6%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 2,886 domestic departures from Bob Hope (BUR). 82.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.9% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 85.5% of flights departed on time and 85.8% arrived on time, so BUR departures were 2.9 points below the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2023, the airport had 2,521 departures with 81.7% leaving on time: a change of +0.9 points, with flights up 14%.

Flights arriving at BUR that month were on time 81.9% of the time (2,886 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 24%.

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

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

MeasureOct 2024Oct 2023BUR, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Oct 2024
Departed on time82.6%81.7%79.9%85.5%
Arrived on time81.9%84.5%80.9%85.8%
Cancelled0.6%0.7%1.3%1.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)12.1 min9.1 min13.4 min9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day96848220,517
Scheduled departures2,8862,52129,940615,497

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines1,71259%83.8%1.1 min0.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines33812%79.9%2.9 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines27910%71.0%12.7 min0.4%
AS Alaska Airlines1967%85.7%-3.2 min2.0%
UA United Airlines1616%80.7%9.0 min1.2%
AA American Airlines873%89.7%-8.8 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines622%75.8%28.9 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways261%73.1%40.3 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air251%84.0%66.8 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BUR–LASBurbank to Las Vegas39278.1%4.9 min1.3%
BUR–OAKBurbank to Oakland30287.4%-1.6 min0.0%
BUR–SMFBurbank to Sacramento28781.9%3.1 min1.0%
BUR–PHXBurbank to Phoenix28283.7%7.6 min0.0%
BUR–SFOBurbank to San Francisco27675.4%9.0 min0.0%
BUR–SJCBurbank to San Jose24981.1%1.9 min0.4%
BUR–DENBurbank to Denver18188.4%-4.8 min1.1%
BUR–SEABurbank to Seattle12687.3%-3.9 min1.6%
BUR–SLCBurbank to Salt Lake City11387.6%7.2 min0.0%
BUR–PDXBurbank to Portland7082.9%-2.0 min2.9%
BUR–DFWBurbank to Dallas/Fort Worth6290.3%-9.9 min0.0%
BUR–BOIBurbank to Boise5176.5%5.8 min0.0%

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 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Oct 2024Minutes
Air carrier27.8%42.7%8,932
Late-arriving aircraft43.7%37.4%14,035
National Aviation System23.6%16.3%7,562
Extreme weather4.9%3.4%1,565
Security0.0%0.2%12
32,106 delay minutes on 501 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left BUR on time in October 2024?

82.6% of 2,886 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 85.5% and 85.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2023, 81.7% of 2,521 departures left on time and 0.7% were cancelled, against 82.6% and 0.6% in October 2024.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for October 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.