Santa Barbara Municipal in March 2024

77.7%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 557 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 77.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.4% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 0.8 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 77.4% of the time (557 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 37%, late-arriving aircraft 34% and air carrier 25%.

On time 77.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.5%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.2%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	77.7%	—	81.1%	78.5%
Arrived on time	77.4%	—	80.3%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.9%	—	1.0%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	20.4 min	—	15.0 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	19	—	24	19,726
Scheduled departures	557	—	8,582	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	179	32%	84.9%	2.2 min	1.1%
UA United Airlines	130	23%	62.3%	29.1 min	1.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines	124	22%	83.9%	5.7 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	93	17%	69.9%	26.7 min	1.1%
AS Alaska Airlines	31	6%	93.5%	-8.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	111	89.2%	-2.7 min	0.9%
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	93	80.6%	20.6 min	0.0%
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	92	48.9%	45.2 min	1.1%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	73	78.1%	10.6 min	1.4%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	60	81.7%	8.6 min	0.0%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	61.3%	15.3 min	3.2%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	31	83.9%	0.2 min	3.2%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	31	93.5%	-8.7 min	0.0%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	26	92.3%	-7.1 min	0.0%
SBA–PDX	Santa Barbara to Portland	9	88.9%	-3.6 min	0.0%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	24.5%	32.1%	2,741
Late-arriving aircraft	33.8%	42.1%	3,787
National Aviation System	37.3%	21.4%	4,172
Extreme weather	4.4%	4.2%	489
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

11,189 delay minutes on 120 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 March 2024?

77.7% of 557 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.