Los Angeles International in January 2024

80.8%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 15,228 domestic departures from Los Angeles International (LAX). 80.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.0% reached their destination on time; 3.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so LAX departures were 6.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LAX that month were on time 78.7% of the time (15,220 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 39%, late-arriving aircraft 39% and national aviation system 19%.

On time 78.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.6%
Cancelled 3.1%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from LAX in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	LAX, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	80.8%	—	79.0%	74.0%
Arrived on time	78.0%	—	79.0%	72.9%
Cancelled	3.1%	—	0.9%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.1 min	—	15.1 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	508	—	521	18,242
Scheduled departures	15,228	—	190,106	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	3,271	21%	83.4%	1.7 min	0.8%
DL Delta Air Lines	2,760	18%	83.1%	2.2 min	0.4%
AA American Airlines	2,421	16%	77.9%	12.2 min	0.5%
WN Southwest Airlines	2,097	14%	74.2%	7.8 min	1.4%
UA United Airlines	1,983	13%	71.8%	4.6 min	12.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	922	6%	81.5%	-0.6 min	1.5%
B6 JetBlue Airways	842	6%	76.8%	5.8 min	0.4%
AS Alaska Airlines	689	5%	61.1%	7.1 min	19.4%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	188	1%	69.1%	12.4 min	1.6%
G4 Allegiant Air	55	0%	67.3%	22.8 min	1.8%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LAX–SFO	Los Angeles to San Francisco	858	63.6%	11.5 min	5.0%
LAX–LAS	Los Angeles to Las Vegas	776	75.4%	8.6 min	3.4%
LAX–JFK	Los Angeles to New York	752	80.7%	5.0 min	0.0%
LAX–DEN	Los Angeles to Denver	585	79.8%	0.2 min	7.0%
LAX–DFW	Los Angeles to Dallas/Fort Worth	553	79.2%	13.9 min	0.9%
LAX–SEA	Los Angeles to Seattle	528	76.3%	0.4 min	8.5%
LAX–PHX	Los Angeles to Phoenix	517	76.2%	10.3 min	2.7%
LAX–ORD	Los Angeles to Chicago	507	74.2%	4.0 min	7.5%
LAX–SLC	Los Angeles to Salt Lake City	467	89.3%	-3.2 min	0.2%
LAX–EWR	Los Angeles to Newark	436	77.3%	4.8 min	5.7%
LAX–HNL	Los Angeles to Honolulu	428	65.0%	13.2 min	2.6%
LAX–SJC	Los Angeles to San Jose	421	85.7%	-0.1 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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	39.4%	32.6%	71,935
Late-arriving aircraft	38.5%	39.0%	70,299
National Aviation System	18.8%	17.9%	34,259
Extreme weather	3.0%	10.3%	5,565
Security	0.4%	0.2%	648

182,706 delay minutes on 2,835 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 LAX on time in January 2024?

80.8% of 15,228 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for LAX · methodology · corrections.