Santa Barbara Municipal in February 2024

71.5%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 February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 516 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 71.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 70.3% reached their destination on time; 8.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 12.5 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 71.7% of the time (515 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 37%, air carrier 35% and late-arriving aircraft 26%.

On time 70.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.1%
Cancelled 8.1%
Diverted 0.4%

Every scheduled departure from SBA in February 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

February 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	71.5%	—	81.1%	84.0%
Arrived on time	70.3%	—	80.3%	83.4%
Cancelled	8.1%	—	1.0%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	19.4 min	—	15.0 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	17	—	24	17,307
Scheduled departures	516	—	8,582	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	158	31%	78.5%	-1.8 min	8.2%
UA United Airlines	131	25%	50.4%	30.4 min	9.9%
OO SkyWest Airlines	108	21%	75.9%	0.3 min	8.3%
AA American Airlines	96	19%	77.1%	21.7 min	5.2%
AS Alaska Airlines	23	4%	73.9%	-5.6 min	8.7%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	104	74.0%	7.7 min	9.6%
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	87	29.9%	41.3 min	10.3%
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	81	77.8%	23.7 min	4.9%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	58	74.1%	6.3 min	8.6%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	54	90.7%	-7.7 min	7.4%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	30	80.0%	0.7 min	6.7%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	29	89.7%	-14.1 min	6.9%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	27	74.1%	-1.7 min	7.4%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	25	88.0%	-13.5 min	8.0%
SBA–PDX	Santa Barbara to Portland	21	61.9%	10.6 min	9.5%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	34.8%	35.9%	3,178
Late-arriving aircraft	25.7%	36.9%	2,347
National Aviation System	37.4%	21.7%	3,418
Extreme weather	2.0%	5.3%	187
Security	0.0%	0.3%	0

9,130 delay minutes on 109 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 February 2024?

71.5% of 516 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 70.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 2023 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 February 2024; 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.