Santa Barbara Municipal in October 2023

83.3%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 October 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 671 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 83.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.2% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.8% of flights departed on time and 84.0% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 0.5 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 81.6% of the time (670 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 38%, air carrier 35% and extreme weather 15%.

On time 83.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.1%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2023	Year earlier	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2023
Departed on time	83.3%	—	81.1%	83.8%
Arrived on time	83.2%	—	80.3%	84.0%
Cancelled	0.6%	—	1.0%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.8 min	—	15.0 min	11.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	22	—	24	19,966
Scheduled departures	671	—	8,582	598,968

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	221	33%	87.8%	2.1 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	201	30%	78.1%	3.8 min	1.0%
AA American Airlines	120	18%	81.7%	22.2 min	0.8%
UA United Airlines	98	15%	81.6%	-1.5 min	1.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	31	5%	93.5%	-12.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	143	83.2%	0.5 min	1.4%
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	122	83.6%	-0.3 min	0.0%
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	89	86.5%	20.8 min	0.0%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	86	76.7%	2.5 min	1.2%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	79.0%	11.2 min	1.6%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	54	87.0%	11.3 min	0.0%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	31	74.2%	5.3 min	0.0%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	31	93.5%	-12.5 min	0.0%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	31	87.1%	5.6 min	0.0%
SBA–PDX	Santa Barbara to Portland	22	86.4%	-1.5 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), October 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	34.9%	41.3%	3,015
Late-arriving aircraft	37.9%	40.5%	3,271
National Aviation System	12.2%	14.4%	1,053
Extreme weather	15.0%	3.7%	1,291
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

8,630 delay minutes on 108 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 October 2023?

83.3% of 671 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.8% and 84.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

October 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 October 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.