Santa Barbara Municipal in June 2024

82.5%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 June 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 662 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 82.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 83.2% reached their destination on time; 1.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.7% of flights departed on time and 73.9% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 8.8 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 80.9% of the time (664 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, air carrier 26% and national aviation system 15%.

On time 83.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.0%
Cancelled 1.5%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Jun 2024	Year earlier	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jun 2024
Departed on time	82.5%	—	81.1%	73.7%
Arrived on time	83.2%	—	80.3%	73.9%
Cancelled	1.5%	—	1.0%	1.3%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.4 min	—	15.0 min	19.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	22	—	24	20,371
Scheduled departures	662	—	8,582	611,132

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	186	28%	83.9%	2.5 min	0.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines	152	23%	85.5%	-0.4 min	0.7%
UA United Airlines	117	18%	81.2%	7.3 min	5.1%
DL Delta Air Lines	70	11%	87.1%	10.8 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	69	10%	78.3%	7.0 min	2.9%
MQ Envoy Air	56	8%	78.6%	5.7 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	12	2%	91.7%	-5.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	124	83.1%	0.2 min	1.6%
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	119	81.5%	7.4 min	1.7%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	68	89.7%	-1.5 min	0.0%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	60	78.3%	8.0 min	1.7%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	60	86.7%	-1.1 min	0.0%
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	60	76.7%	5.6 min	8.3%
SBA–SLC	Santa Barbara to Salt Lake City	47	85.1%	21.9 min	0.0%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	30	73.3%	13.3 min	0.0%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	30	80.0%	8.2 min	0.0%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	29	96.6%	-7.7 min	0.0%
SBA–ATL	Santa Barbara to Atlanta	23	91.3%	-12.1 min	0.0%
SBA–PDX	Santa Barbara to Portland	12	83.3%	0.2 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), June 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jun 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	25.7%	34.4%	1,978
Late-arriving aircraft	53.8%	41.5%	4,147
National Aviation System	15.4%	17.8%	1,188
Extreme weather	5.1%	6.0%	394
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

7,707 delay minutes on 99 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 June 2024?

82.5% of 662 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 83.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.7% and 73.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

June 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 June 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.