Long Beach Airport in April 2024

83.7%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,476 domestic departures from Long Beach Airport (LGB). 83.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 85.7% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so LGB departures were 3.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LGB that month were on time 84.6% of the time (1,476 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 55%, air carrier 23% and national aviation system 14%.

On time 85.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 13.7%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from LGB in April 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

April 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Apr 2024	Year earlier	LGB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time	83.7%	—	82.4%	80.5%
Arrived on time	85.7%	—	84.8%	80.2%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	0.4%	0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.1 min	—	9.8 min	14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	49	—	41	19,406
Scheduled departures	1,476	—	15,115	582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,327	90%	85.2%	-0.5 min	0.4%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	60	4%	96.7%	-11.4 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	60	4%	80.0%	11.8 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	29	2%	96.6%	-7.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LGB–LAS	Long Beach to Las Vegas	185	81.1%	1.2 min	0.5%
LGB–SMF	Long Beach to Sacramento	167	85.6%	-0.3 min	0.6%
LGB–OAK	Long Beach to Oakland	144	88.2%	-2.6 min	0.0%
LGB–SLC	Long Beach to Salt Lake City	132	81.8%	4.5 min	0.0%
LGB–PHX	Long Beach to Phoenix	117	86.3%	2.1 min	0.0%
LGB–SJC	Long Beach to San Jose	103	87.4%	-3.6 min	1.0%
LGB–DEN	Long Beach to Denver	94	87.2%	-4.2 min	0.0%
LGB–HNL	Long Beach to Honolulu	60	91.7%	-8.8 min	0.0%
LGB–RNO	Long Beach to Reno	55	83.6%	5.1 min	0.0%
LGB–AUS	Long Beach to Austin	52	86.5%	2.5 min	1.9%
LGB–DAL	Long Beach to Dallas	52	80.8%	6.5 min	0.0%
LGB–HOU	Long Beach to Houston	52	88.5%	-5.2 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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Apr 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	23.2%	33.6%	2,309
Late-arriving aircraft	55.4%	41.0%	5,513
National Aviation System	13.9%	20.0%	1,388
Extreme weather	5.8%	5.1%	574
Security	1.7%	0.2%	169

9,953 delay minutes on 202 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 April 2024?

83.7% of 1,476 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 85.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.