Los Angeles International in March 2025

84.1%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 16,213 domestic departures from Los Angeles International (LAX). 84.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.1% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so LAX departures were 4.2 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 15,916 departures with 79.2% leaving on time: a change of +4.9 points, with flights up 2%.

Flights arriving at LAX that month were on time 83.5% of the time (16,213 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 40%, late-arriving aircraft 34% and national aviation system 21%.

On time 84.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.2%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.4%

Every scheduled departure from LAX in March 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	LAX, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	84.1%	79.2%	79.0%	79.9%
Arrived on time	84.1%	76.5%	79.0%	79.3%
Cancelled	0.4%	0.4%	0.9%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.6 min	15.0 min	15.1 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	540	531	521	20,029
Scheduled departures	16,213	15,916	190,106	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	3,604	22%	82.9%	3.3 min	0.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	2,940	18%	82.4%	2.3 min	0.2%
AA American Airlines	2,595	16%	82.9%	0.6 min	0.5%
UA United Airlines	2,272	14%	86.9%	-2.7 min	0.1%
WN Southwest Airlines	2,135	13%	87.6%	-4.7 min	0.4%
NK Spirit Airlines	670	4%	87.9%	-3.5 min	0.4%
AS Alaska Airlines	661	4%	80.9%	-1.2 min	1.1%
B6 JetBlue Airways	609	4%	86.0%	-5.0 min	0.5%
F9 Frontier Airlines	442	3%	72.9%	9.1 min	0.5%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	200	1%	87.5%	-0.2 min	0.5%
G4 Allegiant Air	54	0%	92.6%	-8.6 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	31	0%	96.8%	-4.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LAX–SFO	Los Angeles to San Francisco	915	74.4%	6.3 min	0.3%
LAX–JFK	Los Angeles to New York	838	84.7%	1.7 min	0.5%
LAX–LAS	Los Angeles to Las Vegas	812	81.7%	4.2 min	0.2%
LAX–PHX	Los Angeles to Phoenix	684	82.7%	1.9 min	0.1%
LAX–DEN	Los Angeles to Denver	651	89.2%	-5.1 min	0.5%
LAX–SEA	Los Angeles to Seattle	612	82.8%	-3.5 min	1.3%
LAX–DFW	Los Angeles to Dallas/Fort Worth	605	80.7%	2.3 min	1.5%
LAX–ORD	Los Angeles to Chicago	570	84.0%	-0.7 min	0.4%
LAX–SJC	Los Angeles to San Jose	488	88.9%	-6.3 min	0.2%
LAX–SMF	Los Angeles to Sacramento	478	85.6%	0.5 min	0.2%
LAX–HNL	Los Angeles to Honolulu	456	87.3%	-7.9 min	0.2%
LAX–IAH	Los Angeles to Houston	446	90.1%	-2.9 min	0.2%

By scheduled departure hour

100

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), March 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	40.2%	33.0%	66,476
Late-arriving aircraft	34.1%	39.2%	56,309
National Aviation System	20.8%	21.9%	34,338
Extreme weather	4.9%	5.9%	8,040
Security	0.1%	0.1%	159

165,322 delay minutes on 2,458 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 2025?

84.1% of 16,213 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 79.2% of 15,916 departures left on time and 0.4% were cancelled, against 84.1% and 0.4% in March 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for March 2025; 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.