Long Beach Airport in March 2025

86.2%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,474 domestic departures from Long Beach Airport (LGB). 86.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 88.2% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so LGB departures were 6.3 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 1,502 departures with 81.7% leaving on time: a change of +4.5 points, with flights down 2%.

Flights arriving at LGB that month were on time 87.1% of the time (1,474 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 53%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 19%.

On time 88.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 11.3%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from LGB in March 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

March 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	LGB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	86.2%	81.7%	82.4%	79.9%
Arrived on time	88.2%	83.0%	84.8%	79.3%
Cancelled	0.3%	0.6%	0.4%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	7.5 min	10.3 min	9.8 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	49	50	41	20,029
Scheduled departures	1,474	1,502	15,115	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,319	89%	87.9%	-3.3 min	0.3%
OO SkyWest Airlines	64	4%	95.3%	-10.8 min	0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	62	4%	88.7%	-7.6 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	29	2%	86.2%	-6.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LGB–LAS	Long Beach to Las Vegas	200	84.0%	0.0 min	1.0%
LGB–SMF	Long Beach to Sacramento	167	89.8%	-3.7 min	0.0%
LGB–PHX	Long Beach to Phoenix	148	79.7%	6.3 min	0.0%
LGB–OAK	Long Beach to Oakland	147	91.8%	-9.6 min	0.0%
LGB–SLC	Long Beach to Salt Lake City	147	90.5%	-7.0 min	0.0%
LGB–SJC	Long Beach to San Jose	106	87.7%	-5.7 min	0.0%
LGB–DEN	Long Beach to Denver	95	88.4%	-3.4 min	1.1%
LGB–HNL	Long Beach to Honolulu	62	95.2%	-14.6 min	0.0%
LGB–RNO	Long Beach to Reno	62	83.9%	2.3 min	0.0%
LGB–DAL	Long Beach to Dallas	61	93.4%	-6.3 min	0.0%
LGB–HOU	Long Beach to Houston	49	91.8%	-4.8 min	0.0%
LGB–AUS	Long Beach to Austin	45	86.7%	-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 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	27.9%	33.0%	2,206
Late-arriving aircraft	52.5%	39.2%	4,153
National Aviation System	18.8%	21.9%	1,490
Extreme weather	0.8%	5.9%	66
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

7,915 delay minutes on 167 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 2025?

86.2% of 1,474 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 88.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 81.7% of 1,502 departures left on time and 0.6% were cancelled, against 86.2% and 0.3% in March 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for March 2025; 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.