Santa Barbara Municipal in May 2024

82.6%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 654 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 82.6% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.2% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 9.2 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 77.9% of the time (655 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 45%, national aviation system 33% and air carrier 19%.

On time 83.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.7%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	82.6%	—	81.1%	73.4%
Arrived on time	83.2%	—	80.3%	72.3%
Cancelled	0.8%	—	1.0%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.3 min	—	15.0 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	22	—	24	20,325
Scheduled departures	654	—	8,582	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	182	28%	85.7%	0.8 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	173	26%	90.8%	-5.2 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	123	19%	80.5%	6.3 min	1.6%
AA American Airlines	119	18%	73.9%	13.8 min	2.5%
AS Alaska Airlines	31	5%	77.4%	-0.4 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	26	4%	76.9%	14.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	147	89.1%	1.0 min	0.0%
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	111	87.4%	-3.0 min	0.9%
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	84	70.2%	16.8 min	1.2%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	76	88.2%	-1.2 min	0.0%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	62	93.5%	-11.4 min	0.0%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	57	57.9%	26.4 min	5.3%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	31	77.4%	-0.4 min	0.0%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	30	83.3%	8.1 min	0.0%
SBA–PDX	Santa Barbara to Portland	29	86.2%	3.2 min	0.0%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	27	92.6%	-5.8 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), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	19.0%	29.8%	1,364
Late-arriving aircraft	45.2%	43.0%	3,238
National Aviation System	33.1%	20.1%	2,371
Extreme weather	2.6%	7.0%	188
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

7,161 delay minutes on 103 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 May 2024?

82.6% of 654 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.