Santa Barbara Municipal in September 2023

85.6%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 631 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 85.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.9% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 5.1 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 82.1% of the time (632 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 51%, national aviation system 24% and air carrier 23%.

On time 84.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.1%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from SBA in September 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

September 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	85.6%	—	81.1%	80.5%
Arrived on time	84.9%	—	80.3%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.0%	—	1.0%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.1 min	—	15.0 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	21	—	24	18,978
Scheduled departures	631	—	8,582	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	204	32%	84.3%	-2.5 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	193	31%	83.9%	-0.1 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	115	18%	83.5%	2.2 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	89	14%	88.8%	-7.5 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	30	5%	90.0%	-4.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	136	88.2%	-6.6 min	0.0%
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	115	79.1%	-0.7 min	0.0%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	85	84.7%	2.2 min	0.0%
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	80	83.8%	1.6 min	0.0%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	60	78.3%	3.1 min	0.0%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	60	96.7%	-7.9 min	0.0%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	30	80.0%	5.1 min	0.0%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	30	90.0%	-4.5 min	0.0%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	30	86.7%	-4.5 min	0.0%
SBA–PDX	Santa Barbara to Portland	5	80.0%	-2.2 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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	23.3%	36.4%	1,208
Late-arriving aircraft	50.6%	38.3%	2,624
National Aviation System	24.2%	19.9%	1,255
Extreme weather	1.9%	5.1%	99
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

5,186 delay minutes on 95 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 SBA on time in September 2023?

85.6% of 631 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 2022 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 September 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for SBA · methodology · corrections.