Long Beach Airport in August 2025

86.3%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 August 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,414 domestic departures from Long Beach Airport (LGB). 86.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 87.4% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.8% of flights departed on time and 76.3% arrived on time, so LGB departures were 9.5 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in August 2024, the airport had 1,443 departures with 88.7% leaving on time: a change of −2.4 points, with flights down 2%.

Flights arriving at LGB that month were on time 84.6% of the time (1,414 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 57%, air carrier 20% and national aviation system 20%.

On time 87.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.3%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Aug 2025	Aug 2024	LGB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Aug 2025
Departed on time	86.3%	88.7%	82.4%	76.8%
Arrived on time	87.4%	88.1%	84.8%	76.3%
Cancelled	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	1.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	8.1 min	6.7 min	9.8 min	17.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	47	48	41	20,079
Scheduled departures	1,414	1,443	15,115	602,378

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,259	89%	86.8%	-1.6 min	0.0%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	62	4%	95.2%	-3.4 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	62	4%	93.5%	-5.1 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	2%	83.9%	-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	193	81.3%	2.8 min	0.0%
LGB–SMF	Long Beach to Sacramento	162	92.0%	-7.2 min	0.0%
LGB–OAK	Long Beach to Oakland	148	91.9%	-7.2 min	0.0%
LGB–SLC	Long Beach to Salt Lake City	127	90.6%	-4.8 min	0.0%
LGB–PHX	Long Beach to Phoenix	123	88.6%	-0.8 min	0.0%
LGB–SJC	Long Beach to San Jose	106	92.5%	-8.2 min	0.0%
LGB–DEN	Long Beach to Denver	89	75.3%	10.3 min	0.0%
LGB–RNO	Long Beach to Reno	65	83.1%	-0.7 min	0.0%
LGB–HNL	Long Beach to Honolulu	62	93.5%	-6.8 min	0.0%
LGB–DAL	Long Beach to Dallas	57	80.7%	8.8 min	0.0%
LGB–HOU	Long Beach to Houston	52	88.5%	0.6 min	0.0%
LGB–AUS	Long Beach to Austin	43	86.0%	-0.6 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), August 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Aug 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	20.0%	33.1%	1,926
Late-arriving aircraft	56.6%	40.5%	5,460
National Aviation System	19.6%	19.2%	1,890
Extreme weather	3.8%	7.0%	368
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

9,644 delay minutes on 174 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 August 2025?

86.3% of 1,414 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 87.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.8% and 76.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In August 2024, 88.7% of 1,443 departures left on time and 0.1% were cancelled, against 86.3% and 0.0% in August 2025.

Provenance

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