Long Beach Airport in January 2026

88.9%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 January 2026, reporting carriers scheduled 1,217 domestic departures from Long Beach Airport (LGB). 88.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 90.8% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 75.6% of flights departed on time and 75.3% arrived on time, so LGB departures were 13.3 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2025, the airport had 1,345 departures with 88.1% leaving on time: a change of +0.8 points, with flights down 10%.

Flights arriving at LGB that month were on time 87.8% of the time (1,217 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 57%, national aviation system 23% and air carrier 19%.

On time 90.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 8.6%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from LGB in January 2026, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2026 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2026	Jan 2025	LGB, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2026
Departed on time	88.9%	88.1%	82.4%	75.6%
Arrived on time	90.8%	88.6%	84.8%	75.3%
Cancelled	0.4%	1.3%	0.4%	4.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	6.1 min	7.7 min	9.8 min	16.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	41	45	41	18,133
Scheduled departures	1,217	1,345	15,115	544,003

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,063	87%	90.3%	-6.9 min	0.5%
AS Alaska Airlines	62	5%	93.5%	-12.2 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	57	5%	94.7%	-7.7 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	35	3%	94.3%	-11.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
LGB–LAS	Long Beach to Las Vegas	189	85.2%	-2.2 min	0.5%
LGB–SMF	Long Beach to Sacramento	162	91.4%	-10.0 min	0.0%
LGB–OAK	Long Beach to Oakland	143	90.2%	-12.1 min	0.7%
LGB–PHX	Long Beach to Phoenix	137	89.8%	-2.8 min	0.0%
LGB–SLC	Long Beach to Salt Lake City	130	94.6%	-8.1 min	0.0%
LGB–SJC	Long Beach to San Jose	93	91.4%	-11.8 min	0.0%
LGB–DEN	Long Beach to Denver	67	95.5%	-5.8 min	0.0%
LGB–HNL	Long Beach to Honolulu	62	98.4%	-19.1 min	0.0%
LGB–RNO	Long Beach to Reno	60	91.7%	-5.3 min	0.0%
LGB–DAL	Long Beach to Dallas	35	88.6%	-6.9 min	5.7%
LGB–HOU	Long Beach to Houston	34	91.2%	0.1 min	0.0%
LGB–BNA	Long Beach to Nashville	31	90.3%	-4.6 min	3.2%

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), January 2026.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2026	Minutes
Air carrier	19.1%	37.3%	1,027
Late-arriving aircraft	56.7%	35.0%	3,051
National Aviation System	23.3%	18.0%	1,251
Extreme weather	0.9%	9.6%	48
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

5,377 delay minutes on 105 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 January 2026?

88.9% of 1,217 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 90.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 75.6% and 75.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2025, 88.1% of 1,345 departures left on time and 1.3% were cancelled, against 88.9% and 0.4% in January 2026.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2026; 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.