Santa Barbara Municipal in February 2025

84.5%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 February 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 541 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 84.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 86.5% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.2% of flights departed on time and 77.9% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 5.3 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in February 2024, the airport had 516 departures with 71.5% leaving on time: a change of +13.0 points, with flights up 5%.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 77.5% of the time (542 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, national aviation system 30% and air carrier 16%.

On time 86.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 12.6%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Feb 2025	Feb 2024	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2025
Departed on time	84.5%	71.5%	81.1%	79.2%
Arrived on time	86.5%	70.3%	80.3%	77.9%
Cancelled	0.9%	8.1%	1.0%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.7 min	19.4 min	15.0 min	15.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	18	17	24	16,830
Scheduled departures	541	516	8,582	504,884

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	123	23%	80.5%	2.4 min	3.3%
WN Southwest Airlines	118	22%	83.9%	-4.7 min	0.8%
UA United Airlines	96	18%	89.6%	-4.3 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	84	16%	91.7%	-7.6 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	70	13%	98.6%	-14.9 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	28	5%	71.4%	14.8 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	22	4%	81.8%	-3.1 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	92	92.4%	-6.7 min	0.0%
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	91	76.9%	4.8 min	3.3%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	64	78.1%	-1.4 min	1.6%
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	56	96.4%	-15.2 min	0.0%
SBA–SLC	Santa Barbara to Salt Lake City	56	91.1%	-3.6 min	0.0%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	50	90.0%	-2.8 min	2.0%
SBA–ATL	Santa Barbara to Atlanta	28	92.9%	-15.6 min	0.0%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	28	85.7%	-5.6 min	0.0%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	28	71.4%	14.8 min	0.0%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	26	96.2%	-11.5 min	0.0%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	22	81.8%	-3.1 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), February 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	16.4%	33.9%	754
Late-arriving aircraft	48.5%	36.9%	2,224
National Aviation System	30.0%	22.5%	1,378
Extreme weather	5.1%	6.6%	234
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

4,590 delay minutes on 68 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 February 2025?

84.5% of 541 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 86.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.2% and 77.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In February 2024, 71.5% of 516 departures left on time and 8.1% were cancelled, against 84.5% and 0.9% in February 2025.

Provenance

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