Long Beach Airport in September 2023

78.7%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 1,434 domestic departures from Long Beach Airport (LGB). 78.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.5% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so LGB departures were 1.8 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LGB that month were on time 79.8% of the time (1,434 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 31% and national aviation system 17%.

On time 83.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.1%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from LGB in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	LGB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	78.7%	—	82.4%	80.5%
Arrived on time	83.5%	—	84.8%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	0.4%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	11.1 min	—	9.8 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	48	—	41	18,978
Scheduled departures	1,434	—	15,115	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,284	90%	82.8%	1.4 min	0.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines	90	6%	94.4%	-8.6 min	0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	60	4%	83.3%	2.0 min	1.7%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LGB–LAS	Long Beach to Las Vegas	192	73.4%	12.2 min	1.6%
LGB–OAK	Long Beach to Oakland	142	84.5%	0.4 min	0.0%
LGB–SMF	Long Beach to Sacramento	142	81.7%	3.0 min	0.0%
LGB–SLC	Long Beach to Salt Lake City	120	94.2%	-8.1 min	0.0%
LGB–SJC	Long Beach to San Jose	112	91.1%	-1.0 min	0.0%
LGB–DEN	Long Beach to Denver	93	80.6%	1.0 min	0.0%
LGB–PHX	Long Beach to Phoenix	93	83.9%	-1.8 min	0.0%
LGB–HNL	Long Beach to Honolulu	60	80.0%	3.6 min	0.0%
LGB–RNO	Long Beach to Reno	59	66.1%	11.2 min	0.0%
LGB–AUS	Long Beach to Austin	52	90.4%	-3.3 min	0.0%
LGB–DAL	Long Beach to Dallas	52	86.5%	-4.8 min	0.0%
LGB–HOU	Long Beach to Houston	52	84.6%	-4.3 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

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

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	30.6%	36.4%	3,410
Late-arriving aircraft	49.0%	38.3%	5,469
National Aviation System	17.2%	19.9%	1,917
Extreme weather	3.2%	5.1%	354
Security	0.0%	0.2%	3

11,153 delay minutes on 231 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 LGB on time in September 2023?

78.7% of 1,434 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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