Santa Barbara Municipal in November 2023

85.0%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 November 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 627 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 85.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.1% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 86.0% of flights departed on time and 86.2% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 1.0 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 83.8% of the time (628 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 36%, late-arriving aircraft 32% and national aviation system 25%.

On time 84.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.6%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2023	Year earlier	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2023
Departed on time	85.0%	—	81.1%	86.0%
Arrived on time	84.1%	—	80.3%	86.2%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	1.0%	0.1%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	10.7 min	—	15.0 min	9.4 min
Scheduled departures a day	21	—	24	18,793
Scheduled departures	627	—	8,582	563,777

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	202	32%	86.6%	-0.2 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	188	30%	88.3%	1.5 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	136	22%	74.3%	6.8 min	1.5%
AA American Airlines	71	11%	83.1%	9.5 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	30	5%	86.7%	-8.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	116	76.7%	8.2 min	1.7%
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	115	85.2%	-2.8 min	0.0%
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	112	87.5%	2.0 min	0.0%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	85	81.2%	2.8 min	0.0%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	58	81.0%	11.8 min	0.0%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	36	86.1%	8.0 min	0.0%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	31	90.3%	2.2 min	0.0%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	30	86.7%	-8.0 min	0.0%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	30	90.0%	-5.8 min	0.0%
SBA–PDX	Santa Barbara to Portland	14	100.0%	-9.1 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), November 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	36.4%	42.5%	2,333
Late-arriving aircraft	31.9%	37.3%	2,040
National Aviation System	25.0%	16.2%	1,602
Extreme weather	6.7%	3.7%	426
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

6,401 delay minutes on 98 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 November 2023?

85.0% of 627 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 86.0% and 86.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

November 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 November 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.