Santa Barbara Municipal in December 2023

84.4%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 December 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 570 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 84.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.9% reached their destination on time; 0.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 83.1% of flights departed on time and 83.8% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 1.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 86.8% of the time (570 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 42%, late-arriving aircraft 31% and air carrier 24%.

On time 83.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.8%
Cancelled 0.4%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Dec 2023	Year earlier	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Dec 2023
Departed on time	84.4%	—	81.1%	83.1%
Arrived on time	83.9%	—	80.3%	83.8%
Cancelled	0.4%	—	1.0%	0.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.1 min	—	15.0 min	11.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	19	—	24	19,013
Scheduled departures	570	—	8,582	570,394

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	211	37%	91.0%	-3.9 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	132	23%	71.2%	18.4 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	124	22%	87.1%	3.7 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	72	13%	83.3%	5.7 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	31	5%	77.4%	-0.6 min	6.5%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	121	85.1%	2.6 min	0.0%
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	89	67.4%	23.9 min	0.0%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	88	88.6%	-1.0 min	0.0%
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	86	86.0%	4.8 min	0.0%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	49	83.7%	7.0 min	0.0%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	33	90.9%	-6.5 min	0.0%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	90.3%	-5.9 min	0.0%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	31	77.4%	-0.6 min	6.5%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	31	96.8%	-8.6 min	0.0%
SBA–PDX	Santa Barbara to Portland	11	90.9%	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), December 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Dec 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	24.2%	37.1%	1,570
Late-arriving aircraft	31.1%	38.8%	2,021
National Aviation System	42.0%	17.6%	2,727
Extreme weather	2.7%	6.2%	172
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

6,490 delay minutes on 90 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 December 2023?

84.4% of 570 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.9% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 83.1% and 83.8%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

December 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 December 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.