Bob Hope in May 2025

81.7%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 2,707 domestic departures from Bob Hope (BUR). 81.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.2% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 75.4% arrived on time, so BUR departures were 5.0 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in May 2024, the airport had 2,327 departures with 79.2% leaving on time: a change of +2.5 points, with flights up 16%.

Flights arriving at BUR that month were on time 79.3% of the time (2,707 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 45%, national aviation system 28% and air carrier 21%.

On time 81.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.2%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	May 2025	May 2024	BUR, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2025
Departed on time	81.7%	79.2%	79.9%	76.7%
Arrived on time	81.2%	79.0%	80.9%	75.4%
Cancelled	0.5%	0.6%	1.3%	1.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.6 min	13.2 min	13.4 min	17.5 min
Scheduled departures a day	90	78	82	20,188
Scheduled departures	2,707	2,327	29,940	605,648

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,617	60%	84.7%	0.3 min	0.4%
OO SkyWest Airlines	358	13%	79.3%	2.3 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	224	8%	72.8%	6.8 min	0.9%
AS Alaska Airlines	208	8%	76.4%	3.9 min	0.5%
NK Spirit Airlines	121	4%	86.0%	-1.9 min	2.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	68	3%	67.6%	40.3 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	62	2%	77.4%	12.8 min	0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways	31	1%	41.9%	36.6 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	18	1%	55.6%	33.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
BUR–LAS	Burbank to Las Vegas	398	82.4%	1.4 min	1.0%
BUR–SFO	Burbank to San Francisco	281	72.6%	7.1 min	0.4%
BUR–PHX	Burbank to Phoenix	277	84.5%	0.7 min	0.7%
BUR–OAK	Burbank to Oakland	266	88.0%	-1.1 min	0.8%
BUR–SMF	Burbank to Sacramento	251	83.7%	-1.2 min	0.4%
BUR–DEN	Burbank to Denver	212	64.6%	17.1 min	0.9%
BUR–SJC	Burbank to San Jose	201	89.6%	-3.3 min	0.0%
BUR–SEA	Burbank to Seattle	148	73.6%	5.7 min	0.7%
BUR–SLC	Burbank to Salt Lake City	136	84.6%	0.2 min	0.0%
BUR–DFW	Burbank to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	77.4%	12.8 min	0.0%
BUR–PDX	Burbank to Portland	62	83.9%	-1.1 min	0.0%
BUR–BOI	Burbank to Boise	47	93.6%	-9.9 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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	20.6%	29.3%	5,921
Late-arriving aircraft	44.9%	37.8%	12,924
National Aviation System	28.2%	25.9%	8,112
Extreme weather	5.9%	6.9%	1,707
Security	0.4%	0.1%	120

28,784 delay minutes on 494 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 2025?

81.7% of 2,707 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 75.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In May 2024, 79.2% of 2,327 departures left on time and 0.6% were cancelled, against 81.7% and 0.5% in May 2025.

Provenance

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