Long Beach Airport in October 2023

77.8%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 1,501 domestic departures from Long Beach Airport (LGB). 77.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.7% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so LGB departures were 6.0 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LGB that month were on time 79.6% of the time (1,502 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 56%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 14%.

On time 81.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.7%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from LGB 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	LGB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	77.8%	—	82.4%	83.8%
Arrived on time	81.7%	—	84.8%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	0.4%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.6 min	—	9.8 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	50	—	41	19,966
Scheduled departures	1,501	—	15,115	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,347	90%	81.4%	4.3 min	0.1%
OO SkyWest Airlines	93	6%	93.5%	-7.7 min	0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	61	4%	70.5%	9.7 min	14.8%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LGB–LAS	Long Beach to Las Vegas	205	78.0%	6.2 min	0.0%
LGB–OAK	Long Beach to Oakland	146	89.0%	3.4 min	0.0%
LGB–SMF	Long Beach to Sacramento	146	84.2%	0.1 min	0.0%
LGB–SLC	Long Beach to Salt Lake City	124	92.7%	-6.6 min	0.0%
LGB–SJC	Long Beach to San Jose	119	86.6%	-0.7 min	0.8%
LGB–PHX	Long Beach to Phoenix	98	75.5%	10.6 min	0.0%
LGB–DEN	Long Beach to Denver	94	85.1%	1.4 min	0.0%
LGB–HNL	Long Beach to Honolulu	62	83.9%	3.0 min	1.6%
LGB–RNO	Long Beach to Reno	58	70.7%	9.9 min	0.0%
LGB–AUS	Long Beach to Austin	53	79.2%	7.7 min	0.0%
LGB–DAL	Long Beach to Dallas	53	79.2%	5.2 min	0.0%
LGB–HOU	Long Beach to Houston	53	69.8%	15.7 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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	28.8%	41.3%	4,173
Late-arriving aircraft	55.9%	40.5%	8,094
National Aviation System	13.9%	14.4%	2,005
Extreme weather	1.1%	3.7%	164
Security	0.2%	0.2%	33

14,469 delay minutes on 265 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 October 2023?

77.8% of 1,501 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.7% 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 LGB · methodology · corrections.