Lubbock Preston Smith International in January 2024

75.3%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 477 domestic departures from Lubbock Preston Smith International (LBB). 75.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 76.3% reached their destination on time; 4.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so LBB departures were 1.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LBB that month were on time 71.5% of the time (477 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 46%, air carrier 28% and extreme weather 18%.

On time 76.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.7%
Cancelled 4.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from LBB 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	LBB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	75.3%	—	81.3%	74.0%
Arrived on time	76.3%	—	81.1%	72.9%
Cancelled	4.0%	—	1.7%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	21.5 min	—	16.6 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	16	—	18	18,242
Scheduled departures	477	—	6,557	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	216	45%	83.3%	-2.9 min	3.7%
MQ Envoy Air	139	29%	69.1%	14.5 min	6.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines	75	16%	81.3%	13.9 min	1.3%
AA American Airlines	47	10%	57.4%	58.2 min	2.1%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LBB–DFW	Lubbock to Dallas/Fort Worth	199	65.8%	27.4 min	5.0%
LBB–DAL	Lubbock to Dallas	131	85.5%	-5.9 min	4.6%
LBB–DEN	Lubbock to Denver	51	78.4%	7.9 min	2.0%
LBB–LAS	Lubbock to Las Vegas	31	77.4%	6.4 min	0.0%
LBB–PHX	Lubbock to Phoenix	31	90.3%	-0.6 min	3.2%
LBB–AUS	Lubbock to Austin	27	88.9%	0.2 min	3.7%
LBB–HOU	Lubbock to Houston	7	71.4%	-7.4 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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	27.7%	32.6%	2,534
Late-arriving aircraft	46.1%	39.0%	4,222
National Aviation System	8.0%	17.9%	734
Extreme weather	18.2%	10.3%	1,663
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

9,153 delay minutes on 94 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 January 2024?

75.3% of 477 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 76.3% 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 LBB · methodology · corrections.