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Airport month · April 2024
Santa Barbara Municipal in April 2024
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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 556 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 74.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 73.0% reached their destination on time; 2.3% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 6.2 points below the national departure figure.
Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 74.3% of the time (557 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, national aviation system 23% and extreme weather 15%.
- On time 73.0%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 24.6%
- Cancelled 2.3%
- Diverted 0.0%
April 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | Apr 2024 | Year earlier | SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, Apr 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 74.3% | — | 81.1% | 80.5% |
| Arrived on time | 73.0% | — | 80.3% | 80.2% |
| Cancelled | 2.3% | — | 1.0% | 0.7% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 36.3 min | — | 15.0 min | 14.2 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 19 | — | 24 | 19,406 |
| Scheduled departures | 556 | — | 8,582 | 582,185 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WN Southwest Airlines | 176 | 32% | 78.4% | 7.4 min | 2.3% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 174 | 31% | 70.7% | 52.0 min | 4.0% |
| UA United Airlines | 90 | 16% | 64.4% | 25.7 min | 1.1% |
| AA American Airlines | 86 | 15% | 72.1% | 43.5 min | 1.2% |
| AS Alaska Airlines | 30 | 5% | 83.3% | 10.3 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SBA–DEN | Santa Barbara to Denver | 107 | 81.3% | 9.5 min | 1.9% |
| SBA–PHX | Santa Barbara to Phoenix | 105 | 77.1% | 44.8 min | 2.9% |
| SBA–SFO | Santa Barbara to San Francisco | 82 | 39.0% | 70.8 min | 3.7% |
| SBA–LAS | Santa Barbara to Las Vegas | 73 | 79.5% | 6.8 min | 2.7% |
| SBA–LAX | Santa Barbara to Los Angeles | 60 | 80.0% | 31.5 min | 1.7% |
| SBA–DFW | Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth | 30 | 63.3% | 68.5 min | 3.3% |
| SBA–OAK | Santa Barbara to Oakland | 30 | 73.3% | 8.1 min | 3.3% |
| SBA–SEA | Santa Barbara to Seattle | 30 | 83.3% | 10.3 min | 0.0% |
| SBA–SMF | Santa Barbara to Sacramento | 26 | 80.8% | 11.6 min | 0.0% |
| SBA–PDX | Santa Barbara to Portland | 13 | 100.0% | -7.0 min | 0.0% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left SBA on time in April 2024?
74.3% of 556 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 73.0% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
April 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 April 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.