Santa Barbara Municipal in November 2025

79.4%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 November 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 717 domestic departures from Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA). 79.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.1% reached their destination on time; 2.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.1% of flights departed on time and 77.3% arrived on time, so SBA departures were 1.3 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in November 2024, the airport had 644 departures with 85.2% leaving on time: a change of −5.8 points, with flights up 11%.

Flights arriving at SBA that month were on time 79.9% of the time (717 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 45%, late-arriving aircraft 33% and air carrier 15%.

On time 77.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.9%
Cancelled 2.6%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Nov 2025	Nov 2024	SBA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Nov 2025
Departed on time	79.4%	85.2%	81.1%	78.1%
Arrived on time	77.1%	84.9%	80.3%	77.3%
Cancelled	2.6%	0.3%	1.0%	2.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.6 min	16.6 min	15.0 min	15.6 min
Scheduled departures a day	24	22	24	19,018
Scheduled departures	717	644	8,582	570,550

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	201	28%	71.6%	8.7 min	5.0%
WN Southwest Airlines	154	21%	82.5%	0.4 min	0.6%
UA United Airlines	138	19%	71.7%	14.7 min	1.4%
AA American Airlines	104	15%	82.7%	1.6 min	1.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	55	8%	87.3%	-9.7 min	5.5%
MQ Envoy Air	36	5%	63.9%	16.1 min	5.6%
AS Alaska Airlines	29	4%	89.7%	-3.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBA–SFO	Santa Barbara to San Francisco	146	51.4%	31.7 min	4.8%
SBA–PHX	Santa Barbara to Phoenix	130	78.5%	3.4 min	3.1%
SBA–SLC	Santa Barbara to Salt Lake City	87	97.7%	-16.5 min	1.1%
SBA–DEN	Santa Barbara to Denver	77	81.8%	1.6 min	1.3%
SBA–LAS	Santa Barbara to Las Vegas	75	82.7%	-0.9 min	1.3%
SBA–LAX	Santa Barbara to Los Angeles	53	73.6%	12.4 min	5.7%
SBA–SMF	Santa Barbara to Sacramento	31	83.9%	2.6 min	0.0%
SBA–ATL	Santa Barbara to Atlanta	30	80.0%	-4.7 min	6.7%
SBA–OAK	Santa Barbara to Oakland	30	93.3%	-12.0 min	0.0%
SBA–DFW	Santa Barbara to Dallas/Fort Worth	29	79.3%	8.8 min	0.0%
SBA–SEA	Santa Barbara to Seattle	29	89.7%	-3.7 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), November 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Nov 2025	Minutes
Air carrier	15.1%	30.2%	1,535
Late-arriving aircraft	32.8%	38.3%	3,328
National Aviation System	45.4%	26.7%	4,600
Extreme weather	6.6%	4.6%	672
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

10,135 delay minutes on 143 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 November 2025?

79.4% of 717 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.1% and 77.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In November 2024, 85.2% of 644 departures left on time and 0.3% were cancelled, against 79.4% and 2.6% in November 2025.

Provenance

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