Long Beach Airport in May 2024

79.4%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 1,522 domestic departures from Long Beach Airport (LGB). 79.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.0% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so LGB departures were 6.0 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at LGB that month were on time 81.0% of the time (1,522 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 52%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 20%.

On time 83.0%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.4%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	LGB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	79.4%	—	82.4%	73.4%
Arrived on time	83.0%	—	84.8%	72.3%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	0.4%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.2 min	—	9.8 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	51	—	41	20,325
Scheduled departures	1,522	—	15,115	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,368	90%	82.7%	1.6 min	0.3%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	62	4%	83.9%	4.9 min	1.6%
OO SkyWest Airlines	61	4%	85.2%	6.8 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	2%	93.5%	-5.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LGB–LAS	Long Beach to Las Vegas	192	79.7%	5.2 min	0.0%
LGB–SMF	Long Beach to Sacramento	172	80.2%	1.2 min	0.0%
LGB–OAK	Long Beach to Oakland	150	86.0%	-0.2 min	0.0%
LGB–SLC	Long Beach to Salt Lake City	137	86.9%	2.7 min	0.0%
LGB–PHX	Long Beach to Phoenix	119	79.8%	5.1 min	0.0%
LGB–SJC	Long Beach to San Jose	107	87.9%	-3.3 min	0.0%
LGB–DEN	Long Beach to Denver	96	74.0%	5.5 min	0.0%
LGB–HNL	Long Beach to Honolulu	62	83.9%	12.5 min	1.6%
LGB–AUS	Long Beach to Austin	54	81.5%	2.4 min	1.9%
LGB–DAL	Long Beach to Dallas	54	77.8%	16.2 min	3.7%
LGB–HOU	Long Beach to Houston	54	77.8%	-2.0 min	1.9%
LGB–MDW	Long Beach to Chicago	54	87.0%	-7.4 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

100

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

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.1%	29.8%	4,014
Late-arriving aircraft	51.5%	43.0%	7,353
National Aviation System	19.7%	20.1%	2,808
Extreme weather	0.7%	7.0%	105
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

14,280 delay minutes on 249 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 May 2024?

79.4% of 1,522 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.