Lubbock Preston Smith International in March 2024

83.6%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 543 domestic departures from Lubbock Preston Smith International (LBB). 83.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.7% reached their destination on time; 1.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so LBB departures were 5.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LBB that month were on time 77.3% of the time (543 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 25% and extreme weather 19%.

On time 80.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.7%
Cancelled 1.3%
Diverted 0.4%

Every scheduled departure from LBB 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	LBB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	83.6%	—	81.3%	78.5%
Arrived on time	80.7%	—	81.1%	78.3%
Cancelled	1.3%	—	1.7%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	17.6 min	—	16.6 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	18	—	18	19,726
Scheduled departures	543	—	6,557	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	222	41%	86.5%	-1.7 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	200	37%	78.5%	8.7 min	3.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	85	16%	87.1%	-2.6 min	1.2%
AA American Airlines	36	7%	41.7%	108.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LBB–DFW	Lubbock to Dallas/Fort Worth	234	73.1%	16.8 min	2.6%
LBB–DAL	Lubbock to Dallas	133	88.7%	-4.3 min	0.0%
LBB–DEN	Lubbock to Denver	53	83.0%	1.5 min	0.0%
LBB–LAS	Lubbock to Las Vegas	31	74.2%	4.4 min	0.0%
LBB–PHX	Lubbock to Phoenix	31	96.8%	43.1 min	0.0%
LBB–AUS	Lubbock to Austin	26	88.5%	7.6 min	0.0%
LBB–IAH	Lubbock to Houston	25	76.0%	10.5 min	4.0%
LBB–HOU	Lubbock to Houston	10	100.0%	-24.1 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	24.6%	32.1%	2,364
Late-arriving aircraft	42.2%	42.1%	4,053
National Aviation System	14.4%	21.4%	1,378
Extreme weather	18.8%	4.2%	1,805
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

9,600 delay minutes on 96 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 March 2024?

83.6% of 543 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.7% 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 LBB · methodology · corrections.