Long Beach Airport in October 2025

81.5%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 1,397 domestic departures from Long Beach Airport (LGB). 81.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.5% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so LGB departures were 1.5 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 1,471 departures with 84.3% leaving on time: a change of −2.8 points, with flights down 5%.

Flights arriving at LGB that month were on time 79.8% of the time (1,397 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, air carrier 29% and national aviation system 16%.

On time 84.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.1%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2025	Oct 2024	LGB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time	81.5%	84.3%	82.4%	80.0%
Arrived on time	84.5%	85.5%	84.8%	79.1%
Cancelled	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.6 min	10.0 min	9.8 min	13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	47	49	41	20,195
Scheduled departures	1,397	1,471	15,115	605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,242	89%	84.4%	-1.2 min	0.2%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	62	4%	80.6%	-0.7 min	3.2%
OO SkyWest Airlines	62	4%	90.3%	3.4 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	31	2%	87.1%	13.6 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LGB–LAS	Long Beach to Las Vegas	201	75.6%	4.6 min	0.0%
LGB–SMF	Long Beach to Sacramento	163	87.1%	-3.5 min	0.0%
LGB–OAK	Long Beach to Oakland	147	90.5%	-5.4 min	0.0%
LGB–PHX	Long Beach to Phoenix	127	85.0%	1.9 min	0.0%
LGB–SLC	Long Beach to Salt Lake City	127	85.8%	6.4 min	0.0%
LGB–SJC	Long Beach to San Jose	96	85.4%	-4.1 min	1.0%
LGB–DEN	Long Beach to Denver	80	81.3%	-1.9 min	0.0%
LGB–HNL	Long Beach to Honolulu	62	87.1%	-1.8 min	0.0%
LGB–RNO	Long Beach to Reno	57	78.9%	3.6 min	0.0%
LGB–DAL	Long Beach to Dallas	53	84.9%	-3.1 min	1.9%
LGB–HOU	Long Beach to Houston	53	88.7%	-2.8 min	0.0%
LGB–AUS	Long Beach to Austin	44	84.1%	-1.6 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), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	29.3%	34.0%	3,329
Late-arriving aircraft	53.8%	39.7%	6,116
National Aviation System	16.1%	22.9%	1,831
Extreme weather	0.8%	3.3%	90
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

11,366 delay minutes on 211 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 October 2025?

81.5% of 1,397 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 84.3% of 1,471 departures left on time and 0.5% were cancelled, against 81.5% and 0.3% in October 2025.

Provenance

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