Santa Barbara Municipal in January 2025

85.2%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 January 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 560 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 85.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.4% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.3% of flights departed on time and 78.6% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 5.9 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in January 2024, the airport had 543 departures with 82.7% leaving on time: a change of +2.5 points, with flights up 3%.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 83.2% of the time (560 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, air carrier 40% and national aviation system 13%.

On time 86.4%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.7%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from SBA in January 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2025	Jan 2024	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2025
Departed on time	85.2%	82.7%	81.1%	79.3%
Arrived on time	86.4%	80.8%	80.3%	78.6%
Cancelled	0.9%	0.9%	1.0%	3.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	12.3 min	14.0 min	15.0 min	14.0 min
Scheduled departures a day	19	18	24	17,992
Scheduled departures	560	543	8,582	539,747

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	124	22%	91.9%	-7.5 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	123	22%	87.0%	-4.1 min	0.8%
OO SkyWest Airlines	94	17%	88.3%	-7.4 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	93	17%	83.9%	16.6 min	2.2%
MQ Envoy Air	69	12%	91.3%	4.3 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	31	6%	71.0%	6.3 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	26	5%	65.4%	11.6 min	7.7%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	94	88.3%	4.0 min	0.0%
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	80	87.5%	-10.8 min	0.0%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	65	87.7%	-2.4 min	0.0%
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	62	87.1%	-0.5 min	1.6%
SBA–SLC	Santa Barbara to Salt Lake City	62	90.3%	7.8 min	0.0%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	56	91.1%	-6.4 min	0.0%
SBA–ATL	Santa Barbara to Atlanta	31	71.0%	35.5 min	6.5%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	31	96.8%	-14.0 min	0.0%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	31	71.0%	6.3 min	0.0%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	28	96.4%	-11.8 min	0.0%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	20	60.0%	13.9 min	10.0%

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), January 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	40.2%	36.2%	2,524
Late-arriving aircraft	42.4%	34.7%	2,663
National Aviation System	13.0%	19.9%	819
Extreme weather	4.5%	9.1%	280
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

6,286 delay minutes on 71 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 January 2025?

85.2% of 560 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.4% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.3% and 78.6%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In January 2024, 82.7% of 543 departures left on time and 0.9% were cancelled, against 85.2% and 0.9% in January 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2025; 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.