Long Beach Airport in March 2024

81.7%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,502 domestic departures from Long Beach Airport (LGB). 81.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.0% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so LGB departures were 3.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LGB that month were on time 83.2% of the time (1,504 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 53%, air carrier 25% and national aviation system 20%.

On time 83.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.1%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from LGB 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	LGB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	81.7%	—	82.4%	78.5%
Arrived on time	83.0%	—	84.8%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.6%	—	0.4%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.3 min	—	9.8 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	50	—	41	19,726
Scheduled departures	1,502	—	15,115	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,361	91%	82.6%	3.0 min	0.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines	62	4%	85.5%	-1.1 min	0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	53	4%	90.6%	-8.3 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	26	2%	84.6%	2.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LGB–LAS	Long Beach to Las Vegas	189	67.2%	15.3 min	1.1%
LGB–SMF	Long Beach to Sacramento	166	88.0%	-0.5 min	0.0%
LGB–OAK	Long Beach to Oakland	141	83.7%	2.7 min	0.7%
LGB–SLC	Long Beach to Salt Lake City	132	80.3%	4.4 min	0.0%
LGB–PHX	Long Beach to Phoenix	123	74.8%	7.0 min	0.0%
LGB–SJC	Long Beach to San Jose	107	79.4%	3.7 min	0.9%
LGB–DEN	Long Beach to Denver	98	86.7%	-2.1 min	4.1%
LGB–RNO	Long Beach to Reno	66	89.4%	0.0 min	0.0%
LGB–HNL	Long Beach to Honolulu	62	87.1%	-7.8 min	0.0%
LGB–AUS	Long Beach to Austin	52	90.4%	-3.2 min	0.0%
LGB–DAL	Long Beach to Dallas	52	80.8%	4.7 min	0.0%
LGB–HOU	Long Beach to Houston	52	92.3%	-2.4 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	24.7%	32.1%	3,040
Late-arriving aircraft	53.2%	42.1%	6,538
National Aviation System	20.4%	21.4%	2,508
Extreme weather	1.7%	4.2%	208
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

12,294 delay minutes on 242 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 March 2024?

81.7% of 1,502 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.0% 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 LGB · methodology · corrections.