Santa Barbara Municipal in May 2025

82.0%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 May 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 748 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 82.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.3% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 75.4% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 5.3 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in May 2024, the airport had 654 departures with 82.6% leaving on time: a change of −0.6 points, with flights up 14%.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 80.2% of the time (749 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 41%, late-arriving aircraft 35% and air carrier 22%.

On time 79.3%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.1%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	May 2025	May 2024	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2025
Departed on time	82.0%	82.6%	81.1%	76.7%
Arrived on time	79.3%	83.2%	80.3%	75.4%
Cancelled	0.7%	0.8%	1.0%	1.0%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	9.8 min	12.3 min	15.0 min	17.5 min
Scheduled departures a day	25	22	24	20,188
Scheduled departures	748	654	8,582	605,648

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	354	47%	84.2%	-0.5 min	0.3%
WN Southwest Airlines	138	18%	92.0%	-3.8 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	121	16%	64.5%	17.8 min	2.5%
AA American Airlines	61	8%	63.9%	13.3 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	43	6%	86.0%	-4.2 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	31	4%	45.2%	25.4 min	3.2%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	153	68.6%	10.4 min	0.7%
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	118	82.2%	3.2 min	0.0%
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	93	66.7%	15.3 min	3.2%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	76	90.8%	-2.3 min	0.0%
SBA–SLC	Santa Barbara to Salt Lake City	62	95.2%	-11.5 min	0.0%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	57	96.5%	-11.0 min	0.0%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	48	58.3%	18.6 min	2.1%
SBA–ATL	Santa Barbara to Atlanta	31	87.1%	-5.2 min	0.0%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	71.0%	8.6 min	0.0%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	31	87.1%	-3.1 min	0.0%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	31	100.0%	-8.0 min	0.0%
SBA–PDX	Santa Barbara to Portland	17	64.7%	18.7 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), May 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	21.5%	29.3%	1,743
Late-arriving aircraft	34.5%	37.8%	2,792
National Aviation System	41.3%	25.9%	3,342
Extreme weather	2.6%	6.9%	213
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

8,090 delay minutes on 150 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 May 2025?

82.0% of 748 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 75.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In May 2024, 82.6% of 654 departures left on time and 0.8% were cancelled, against 82.0% and 0.7% in May 2025.

Provenance

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