Long Beach Airport in January 2024

81.6%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,487 domestic departures from Long Beach Airport (LGB). 81.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.2% reached their destination on time; 1.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so LGB departures were 7.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LGB that month were on time 81.6% of the time (1,487 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 52%, air carrier 26% and national aviation system 19%.

On time 81.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.9%
Cancelled 1.7%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from LGB 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	LGB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	81.6%	—	82.4%	74.0%
Arrived on time	81.2%	—	84.8%	72.9%
Cancelled	1.7%	—	0.4%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.6 min	—	9.8 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	50	—	41	18,242
Scheduled departures	1,487	—	15,115	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,366	92%	81.3%	2.3 min	1.8%
OO SkyWest Airlines	62	4%	90.3%	0.2 min	0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	31	2%	61.3%	16.0 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	28	2%	82.1%	4.9 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LGB–LAS	Long Beach to Las Vegas	197	80.7%	3.8 min	1.5%
LGB–SMF	Long Beach to Sacramento	166	88.0%	-1.7 min	1.8%
LGB–OAK	Long Beach to Oakland	149	88.6%	-1.2 min	0.7%
LGB–SLC	Long Beach to Salt Lake City	132	84.8%	0.5 min	0.0%
LGB–PHX	Long Beach to Phoenix	115	85.2%	1.1 min	0.0%
LGB–SJC	Long Beach to San Jose	111	85.6%	-1.6 min	1.8%
LGB–DEN	Long Beach to Denver	97	83.5%	0.0 min	3.1%
LGB–HNL	Long Beach to Honolulu	62	46.8%	19.2 min	0.0%
LGB–RNO	Long Beach to Reno	62	77.4%	4.4 min	1.6%
LGB–AUS	Long Beach to Austin	55	85.5%	0.7 min	1.8%
LGB–DAL	Long Beach to Dallas	55	76.4%	4.0 min	1.8%
LGB–HOU	Long Beach to Houston	55	80.0%	13.1 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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	26.2%	32.6%	3,248
Late-arriving aircraft	51.9%	39.0%	6,428
National Aviation System	18.6%	17.9%	2,304
Extreme weather	3.3%	10.3%	403
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

12,383 delay minutes on 251 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 January 2024?

81.6% of 1,487 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.2% 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 LGB · methodology · corrections.