On-Time Report

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Airport month · January 2025

Bob Hope in January 2025

83.4%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 2,344 domestic departures from Bob Hope (BUR). 83.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.9% reached their destination on time; 2.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so BUR departures were 4.1 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 2,330 departures with 82.0% leaving on time: a change of +1.4 points, with flights up 1%.

Flights arriving at BUR that month were on time 83.3% of the time (2,344 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, national aviation system 24% and air carrier 20%.

Every scheduled departure from BUR in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureJan 2025Jan 2024BUR, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time83.4%82.0%79.9%79.3%
Arrived on time84.9%80.8%80.9%78.6%
Cancelled2.8%2.1%1.3%3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)9.8 min11.2 min13.4 min14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day78788217,992
Scheduled departures2,3442,33029,940539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines1,37158%86.1%-4.9 min2.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines29413%88.8%-5.6 min1.7%
AS Alaska Airlines1818%84.0%0.6 min1.7%
UA United Airlines1707%80.6%-3.7 min4.7%
NK Spirit Airlines1587%83.5%-4.1 min5.7%
AA American Airlines673%77.6%1.6 min4.5%
DL Delta Air Lines542%68.5%17.8 min3.7%
F9 Frontier Airlines472%76.6%3.2 min2.1%
MQ Envoy Air20%100.0%9.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BUR–LASBurbank to Las Vegas36681.4%-1.2 min3.6%
BUR–OAKBurbank to Oakland26888.1%-9.8 min4.1%
BUR–PHXBurbank to Phoenix26091.9%-6.0 min1.5%
BUR–SFOBurbank to San Francisco26083.5%-3.5 min2.7%
BUR–SJCBurbank to San Jose20288.6%-7.9 min2.5%
BUR–SMFBurbank to Sacramento19486.6%-8.8 min2.6%
BUR–DENBurbank to Denver17481.0%2.0 min2.3%
BUR–SEABurbank to Seattle11681.0%2.8 min1.7%
BUR–SLCBurbank to Salt Lake City10182.2%3.5 min2.0%
BUR–PDXBurbank to Portland6889.7%-3.5 min1.5%
BUR–DFWBurbank to Dallas/Fort Worth6275.8%2.9 min4.8%
BUR–DALBurbank to Dallas3485.3%-4.6 min5.9%

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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jan 2025Minutes
Air carrier19.7%36.2%3,899
Late-arriving aircraft48.9%34.7%9,694
National Aviation System24.0%19.9%4,756
Extreme weather7.2%9.1%1,418
Security0.3%0.2%65
19,832 delay minutes on 286 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 January 2025?

83.4% of 2,344 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 82.0% of 2,330 departures left on time and 2.1% were cancelled, against 83.4% and 2.8% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.