Los Angeles International in March 2024

79.2%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 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 15,916 domestic departures from Los Angeles International (LAX). 79.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 76.5% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so LAX departures were 0.7 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LAX that month were on time 79.1% of the time (15,909 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, air carrier 34% and national aviation system 24%.

On time 76.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 22.8%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	LAX, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	79.2%	—	79.0%	78.5%
Arrived on time	76.5%	—	79.0%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	0.9%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.0 min	—	15.1 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	531	—	521	19,726
Scheduled departures	15,916	—	190,106	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	3,396	21%	78.6%	6.0 min	0.6%
DL Delta Air Lines	2,970	19%	78.2%	7.4 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	2,538	16%	74.3%	15.9 min	0.2%
WN Southwest Airlines	2,186	14%	72.3%	9.0 min	0.6%
UA United Airlines	2,131	13%	79.4%	4.3 min	0.6%
B6 JetBlue Airways	893	6%	69.7%	16.2 min	0.6%
NK Spirit Airlines	822	5%	80.2%	3.1 min	0.6%
AS Alaska Airlines	741	5%	74.9%	7.2 min	0.4%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	190	1%	74.7%	4.9 min	3.2%
G4 Allegiant Air	49	0%	81.6%	15.6 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LAX–SFO	Los Angeles to San Francisco	938	47.8%	28.0 min	0.3%
LAX–JFK	Los Angeles to New York	787	78.7%	7.9 min	0.3%
LAX–LAS	Los Angeles to Las Vegas	762	62.7%	19.6 min	0.8%
LAX–DEN	Los Angeles to Denver	611	81.0%	2.9 min	1.8%
LAX–SEA	Los Angeles to Seattle	572	80.4%	0.5 min	0.5%
LAX–DFW	Los Angeles to Dallas/Fort Worth	553	70.0%	24.9 min	0.4%
LAX–ORD	Los Angeles to Chicago	537	78.6%	12.8 min	0.2%
LAX–PHX	Los Angeles to Phoenix	536	70.1%	12.3 min	0.0%
LAX–SLC	Los Angeles to Salt Lake City	465	86.9%	2.9 min	0.0%
LAX–EWR	Los Angeles to Newark	460	78.3%	4.6 min	1.1%
LAX–HNL	Los Angeles to Honolulu	457	81.0%	3.4 min	1.3%
LAX–SJC	Los Angeles to San Jose	452	86.1%	1.6 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	34.2%	32.1%	78,339
Late-arriving aircraft	38.9%	42.1%	89,222
National Aviation System	23.9%	21.4%	54,903
Extreme weather	2.7%	4.2%	6,303
Security	0.2%	0.2%	563

229,330 delay minutes on 3,622 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 March 2024?

79.2% of 15,916 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 76.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.