Santa Barbara Municipal in July 2024

82.8%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 July 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 749 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 82.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.4% reached their destination on time; 1.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 68.5% of flights departed on time and 68.1% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 14.3 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 76.8% of the time (749 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 54%, late-arriving aircraft 34% and national aviation system 11%.

On time 82.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 15.9%
Cancelled 1.6%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Jul 2024	Year earlier	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jul 2024
Departed on time	82.8%	—	81.1%	68.5%
Arrived on time	82.4%	—	80.3%	68.1%
Cancelled	1.6%	—	1.0%	2.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.0 min	—	15.0 min	24.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	25	—	24	21,154
Scheduled departures	749	—	8,582	634,613

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	196	26%	79.1%	11.3 min	2.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	192	26%	85.9%	2.2 min	1.0%
UA United Airlines	94	13%	83.0%	-1.2 min	2.1%
DL Delta Air Lines	93	12%	80.6%	23.5 min	3.2%
MQ Envoy Air	80	11%	90.0%	-2.1 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	63	8%	73.0%	7.8 min	1.6%
AS Alaska Airlines	31	4%	83.9%	0.9 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	124	83.9%	-0.2 min	2.4%
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	124	87.1%	3.6 min	0.8%
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	123	79.7%	6.8 min	0.8%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	69	82.6%	8.8 min	1.4%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	62	74.2%	6.5 min	1.6%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	62	77.4%	13.9 min	3.2%
SBA–SLC	Santa Barbara to Salt Lake City	62	83.9%	20.1 min	1.6%
SBA–ATL	Santa Barbara to Atlanta	31	74.2%	30.5 min	6.5%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	31	90.3%	-4.2 min	0.0%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	31	83.9%	0.9 min	0.0%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	30	90.0%	-5.3 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), July 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jul 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	53.9%	36.6%	5,989
Late-arriving aircraft	34.1%	42.7%	3,786
National Aviation System	11.4%	16.0%	1,262
Extreme weather	0.3%	4.6%	38
Security	0.3%	0.1%	30

11,105 delay minutes on 119 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 July 2024?

82.8% of 749 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 68.5% and 68.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

July 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 July 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.