Lubbock Preston Smith International in October 2023

80.1%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 537 domestic departures from Lubbock Preston Smith International (LBB). 80.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.1% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so LBB departures were 3.7 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LBB that month were on time 74.1% of the time (537 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 38%, extreme weather 28% and air carrier 22%.

On time 80.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.8%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from LBB in October 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

October 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	LBB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	80.1%	—	81.3%	83.8%
Arrived on time	80.1%	—	81.1%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.9%	—	1.7%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.4 min	—	16.6 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	18	—	18	19,966
Scheduled departures	537	—	6,557	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	249	46%	85.9%	-3.0 min	0.4%
MQ Envoy Air	136	25%	82.4%	1.2 min	1.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines	92	17%	82.6%	12.7 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	60	11%	46.7%	63.3 min	3.3%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LBB–DFW	Lubbock to Dallas/Fort Worth	226	73.0%	20.2 min	1.8%
LBB–DAL	Lubbock to Dallas	137	84.7%	-4.0 min	0.7%
LBB–DEN	Lubbock to Denver	62	87.1%	3.0 min	0.0%
LBB–AUS	Lubbock to Austin	36	86.1%	1.9 min	0.0%
LBB–LAS	Lubbock to Las Vegas	31	80.6%	2.3 min	0.0%
LBB–PHX	Lubbock to Phoenix	31	83.9%	6.7 min	0.0%
LBB–HOU	Lubbock to Houston	14	92.9%	-19.1 min	0.0%

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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	21.9%	41.3%	1,861
Late-arriving aircraft	37.5%	40.5%	3,182
National Aviation System	12.4%	14.4%	1,053
Extreme weather	28.2%	3.7%	2,391
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

8,487 delay minutes on 101 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 LBB on time in October 2023?

80.1% of 537 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 2022 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 October 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for LBB · methodology · corrections.