On-Time Report

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Airport month · August 2025

Bob Hope in August 2025

82.7%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 August 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 2,626 domestic departures from Bob Hope (BUR). 82.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.4% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.8% of flights departed on time and 76.3% arrived on time, so BUR departures were 5.9 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in August 2024, the airport had 2,746 departures with 82.7% leaving on time: a change of 0.0 points, with flights down 4%.

Flights arriving at BUR that month were on time 79.4% of the time (2,625 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, national aviation system 30% and air carrier 15%.

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

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

MeasureAug 2025Aug 2024BUR, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Aug 2025
Departed on time82.7%82.7%79.9%76.8%
Arrived on time83.4%81.6%80.9%76.3%
Cancelled0.7%1.3%1.3%1.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)11.6 min11.4 min13.4 min17.6 min
Scheduled departures a day88928220,079
Scheduled departures2,6262,74629,940602,378

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines1,56259%84.9%0.1 min0.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines29011%83.8%-1.9 min0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines2299%77.7%2.3 min2.6%
UA United Airlines2008%82.0%2.3 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines1275%77.2%10.8 min0.8%
AA American Airlines663%75.8%3.6 min3.0%
DL Delta Air Lines622%85.5%25.3 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air502%88.0%-2.9 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways311%83.9%0.8 min3.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines90%88.9%-20.3 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
BUR–LASBurbank to Las Vegas40079.5%6.8 min0.5%
BUR–OAKBurbank to Oakland25791.1%-5.1 min0.4%
BUR–PHXBurbank to Phoenix24887.1%-3.5 min0.4%
BUR–SFOBurbank to San Francisco23878.2%3.4 min0.0%
BUR–SMFBurbank to Sacramento23186.1%-3.2 min1.7%
BUR–DENBurbank to Denver21680.6%5.1 min0.5%
BUR–SJCBurbank to San Jose20487.7%-3.8 min0.5%
BUR–SEABurbank to Seattle14073.6%7.1 min2.9%
BUR–SLCBurbank to Salt Lake City14089.3%0.2 min0.0%
BUR–PDXBurbank to Portland8984.3%-5.2 min2.2%
BUR–DFWBurbank to Dallas/Fort Worth6274.2%4.9 min3.2%
BUR–RNOBurbank to Reno4879.2%7.8 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), August 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Aug 2025Minutes
Air carrier15.2%33.1%4,083
Late-arriving aircraft48.0%40.5%12,900
National Aviation System29.6%19.2%7,956
Extreme weather6.6%7.0%1,763
Security0.7%0.1%193
26,895 delay minutes on 408 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 August 2025?

82.7% of 2,626 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.8% and 76.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In August 2024, 82.7% of 2,746 departures left on time and 1.3% were cancelled, against 82.7% and 0.7% in August 2025.

Provenance

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