Bob Hope in March 2025

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 March 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 2,543 domestic departures from Bob Hope (BUR). 82.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.9% reached their destination on time; 1.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so BUR departures were 2.7 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 2,254 departures with 76.1% leaving on time: a change of +6.5 points, with flights up 13%.

Flights arriving at BUR that month were on time 79.8% of the time (2,543 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 43%, national aviation system 32% and air carrier 22%.

On time 82.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.2%
Cancelled 1.6%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	BUR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	82.6%	76.1%	79.9%	79.9%
Arrived on time	82.9%	75.4%	80.9%	79.3%
Cancelled	1.6%	1.7%	1.3%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.5 min	16.1 min	13.4 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	85	75	82	20,029
Scheduled departures	2,543	2,254	29,940	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,592	63%	85.6%	-3.6 min	2.1%
OO SkyWest Airlines	307	12%	75.9%	10.9 min	1.3%
AS Alaska Airlines	184	7%	87.0%	-3.7 min	0.5%
UA United Airlines	152	6%	73.7%	16.3 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	112	4%	80.4%	-1.3 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	85	3%	80.0%	3.3 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	62	2%	75.8%	8.7 min	1.6%
F9 Frontier Airlines	49	2%	71.4%	6.9 min	2.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BUR–LAS	Burbank to Las Vegas	364	80.2%	-0.4 min	1.6%
BUR–PHX	Burbank to Phoenix	309	81.6%	5.4 min	1.0%
BUR–OAK	Burbank to Oakland	276	88.0%	-6.7 min	2.9%
BUR–SFO	Burbank to San Francisco	265	67.5%	18.3 min	1.5%
BUR–SMF	Burbank to Sacramento	240	85.4%	-5.4 min	2.5%
BUR–SJC	Burbank to San Jose	204	85.3%	-3.7 min	3.4%
BUR–DEN	Burbank to Denver	187	87.7%	-3.9 min	1.1%
BUR–SEA	Burbank to Seattle	129	85.3%	-1.0 min	0.0%
BUR–SLC	Burbank to Salt Lake City	116	88.8%	-3.8 min	0.9%
BUR–DFW	Burbank to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	75.8%	8.7 min	1.6%
BUR–PDX	Burbank to Portland	57	91.2%	-9.7 min	1.8%
BUR–DAL	Burbank to Dallas	35	94.3%	-7.4 min	2.9%

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), March 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	22.1%	33.0%	5,220
Late-arriving aircraft	42.6%	39.2%	10,047
National Aviation System	32.4%	21.9%	7,659
Extreme weather	2.9%	5.9%	681
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

23,607 delay minutes on 387 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 March 2025?

82.6% of 2,543 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 76.1% of 2,254 departures left on time and 1.7% were cancelled, against 82.6% and 1.6% in March 2025.

Provenance

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