Santa Barbara Municipal in March 2025

85.3%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 March 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 652 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 85.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 81.7% reached their destination on time; 0.2% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 79.9% of flights departed on time and 79.3% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 5.4 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in March 2024, the airport had 557 departures with 77.7% leaving on time: a change of +7.6 points, with flights up 17%.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 80.4% of the time (652 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, air carrier 36%, national aviation system 32% and late-arriving aircraft 30%.

On time 81.7%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.1%
Cancelled 0.2%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2025
Departed on time	85.3%	77.7%	81.1%	79.9%
Arrived on time	81.7%	77.4%	80.3%	79.3%
Cancelled	0.2%	0.9%	1.0%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.3 min	20.4 min	15.0 min	14.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	22	19	24	20,029
Scheduled departures	652	557	8,582	600,872

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	173	27%	76.9%	5.2 min	0.6%
WN Southwest Airlines	141	22%	85.1%	-0.5 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	93	14%	90.3%	-0.9 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	93	14%	82.8%	17.5 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	92	14%	90.2%	-3.6 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	31	5%	54.8%	59.2 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	29	4%	65.5%	5.4 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	123	79.7%	3.8 min	0.0%
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	116	72.4%	18.3 min	0.9%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	79	86.1%	-1.4 min	0.0%
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	62	88.7%	1.9 min	0.0%
SBA–SLC	Santa Barbara to Salt Lake City	62	93.5%	-3.3 min	0.0%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	57	98.2%	-8.7 min	0.0%
SBA–ATL	Santa Barbara to Atlanta	31	83.9%	4.1 min	0.0%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	54.8%	59.2 min	0.0%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	31	87.1%	-3.8 min	0.0%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	31	80.6%	4.9 min	0.0%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	29	65.5%	5.4 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), March 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	36.3%	33.0%	3,459
Late-arriving aircraft	30.4%	39.2%	2,896
National Aviation System	32.2%	21.9%	3,066
Extreme weather	1.0%	5.9%	93
Security	0.1%	0.1%	10

9,524 delay minutes on 118 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 March 2025?

85.3% of 652 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 81.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 79.9% and 79.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In March 2024, 77.7% of 557 departures left on time and 0.9% were cancelled, against 85.3% and 0.2% in March 2025.

Provenance

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