Lubbock Preston Smith International in November 2023

91.3%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 November 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 483 domestic departures from Lubbock Preston Smith International (LBB). 91.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 90.3% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 86.0% of flights departed on time and 86.2% arrived on time, so LBB departures were 5.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LBB that month were on time 83.7% of the time (484 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 49%, late-arriving aircraft 26% and national aviation system 24%.

On time 90.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 9.5%
Cancelled 0.2%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2023	Year earlier	LBB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2023
Departed on time	91.3%	—	81.3%	86.0%
Arrived on time	90.3%	—	81.1%	86.2%
Cancelled	0.2%	—	1.7%	0.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	5.2 min	—	16.6 min	9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day	16	—	18	18,793
Scheduled departures	483	—	6,557	563,777

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	235	49%	93.2%	-7.1 min	0.4%
MQ Envoy Air	121	25%	92.6%	-7.7 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	72	15%	86.1%	-2.2 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	55	11%	78.2%	8.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LBB–DFW	Lubbock to Dallas/Fort Worth	190	87.9%	-3.0 min	0.0%
LBB–DAL	Lubbock to Dallas	141	95.0%	-9.0 min	0.7%
LBB–DEN	Lubbock to Denver	59	91.5%	-4.9 min	0.0%
LBB–LAS	Lubbock to Las Vegas	30	86.7%	-2.0 min	0.0%
LBB–PHX	Lubbock to Phoenix	29	82.8%	-2.5 min	0.0%
LBB–AUS	Lubbock to Austin	28	92.9%	-3.0 min	0.0%
LBB–HOU	Lubbock to Houston	6	83.3%	3.8 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), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	49.1%	42.5%	1,096
Late-arriving aircraft	25.6%	37.3%	571
National Aviation System	24.3%	16.2%	542
Extreme weather	0.3%	3.7%	7
Security	0.7%	0.3%	15

2,231 delay minutes on 46 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 November 2023?

91.3% of 483 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 90.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 86.0% and 86.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 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 November 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.