Santa Barbara Municipal in October 2025

82.1%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 October 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 747 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 82.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.5% reached their destination on time; 0.0% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.0% of flights departed on time and 79.1% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 2.1 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in October 2024, the airport had 653 departures with 84.4% leaving on time: a change of −2.3 points, with flights up 14%.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 81.6% of the time (748 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 39%, national aviation system 31% and air carrier 28%.

On time 82.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.4%
Cancelled 0.0%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Oct 2025	Oct 2024	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Oct 2025
Departed on time	82.1%	84.4%	81.1%	80.0%
Arrived on time	82.5%	85.1%	80.3%	79.1%
Cancelled	0.0%	0.9%	1.0%	0.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.0 min	15.1 min	15.0 min	13.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	25	22	24	20,195
Scheduled departures	747	653	8,582	605,844

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
UA United Airlines	197	26%	78.7%	4.4 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	179	24%	85.5%	2.2 min	0.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	153	20%	81.0%	0.8 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	73	10%	83.6%	2.6 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	61	8%	83.6%	8.8 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	53	7%	88.7%	-2.8 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	31	4%	80.6%	11.6 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	142	66.2%	18.1 min	0.0%
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	132	85.6%	-1.0 min	0.0%
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	105	88.6%	-4.4 min	0.0%
SBA–SLC	Santa Barbara to Salt Lake City	92	95.7%	-11.2 min	0.0%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	79	88.6%	-3.1 min	0.0%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	56	91.1%	2.7 min	0.0%
SBA–ATL	Santa Barbara to Atlanta	31	80.6%	19.1 min	0.0%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	74.2%	11.8 min	0.0%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	31	80.6%	11.6 min	0.0%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	31	64.5%	8.0 min	0.0%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	17	82.4%	-5.9 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), October 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Oct 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	27.8%	34.0%	2,531
Late-arriving aircraft	38.5%	39.7%	3,510
National Aviation System	30.5%	22.9%	2,781
Extreme weather	2.4%	3.3%	215
Security	0.9%	0.1%	81

9,118 delay minutes on 130 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 October 2025?

82.1% of 747 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.0% and 79.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In October 2024, 84.4% of 653 departures left on time and 0.9% were cancelled, against 82.1% and 0.0% in October 2025.

Provenance

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