On-Time Report

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Airport month · April 2025

Bob Hope in April 2025

83.0%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 April 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 2,585 domestic departures from Bob Hope (BUR). 83.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.9% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.6% of flights departed on time and 79.5% arrived on time, so BUR departures were 2.4 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in April 2024, the airport had 2,242 departures with 81.5% leaving on time: a change of +1.5 points, with flights up 15%.

Flights arriving at BUR that month were on time 81.0% of the time (2,585 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, national aviation system 29% and air carrier 23%.

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

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

MeasureApr 2025Apr 2024BUR, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2025
Departed on time83.0%81.5%79.9%80.6%
Arrived on time83.9%82.0%80.9%79.5%
Cancelled0.7%0.6%1.3%0.8%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)10.7 min12.4 min13.4 min14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day86758219,465
Scheduled departures2,5852,24229,940583,950

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines1,58061%85.3%-1.2 min0.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines33913%84.4%-2.7 min0.3%
AS Alaska Airlines2018%80.6%2.3 min1.5%
UA United Airlines1767%79.5%3.2 min0.6%
NK Spirit Airlines1144%84.2%6.3 min0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines903%83.3%8.1 min0.0%
AA American Airlines602%75.0%32.2 min1.7%
F9 Frontier Airlines241%75.0%1.1 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways10%0.0%28.0 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BUR–LASBurbank to Las Vegas37281.7%2.3 min0.3%
BUR–SFOBurbank to San Francisco28178.6%-0.2 min0.4%
BUR–PHXBurbank to Phoenix27788.8%-4.4 min0.7%
BUR–OAKBurbank to Oakland26684.6%0.4 min1.9%
BUR–SMFBurbank to Sacramento24589.4%-4.2 min0.4%
BUR–DENBurbank to Denver21074.3%9.6 min0.5%
BUR–SJCBurbank to San Jose19988.9%-3.6 min0.5%
BUR–SEABurbank to Seattle14877.7%3.2 min0.7%
BUR–SLCBurbank to Salt Lake City11089.1%1.8 min0.0%
BUR–DFWBurbank to Dallas/Fort Worth6075.0%32.2 min1.7%
BUR–PDXBurbank to Portland5789.5%-0.2 min3.5%
BUR–BOIBurbank to Boise3491.2%-12.8 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), April 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2025Minutes
Air carrier22.7%32.7%5,530
Late-arriving aircraft47.5%39.4%11,600
National Aviation System28.7%22.2%7,013
Extreme weather1.0%5.5%252
Security0.1%0.2%15
24,410 delay minutes on 397 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 April 2025?

83.0% of 2,585 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.6% and 79.5%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In April 2024, 81.5% of 2,242 departures left on time and 0.6% were cancelled, against 83.0% and 0.7% in April 2025.

Provenance

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