San Luis Obispo County Regional in January 2024

83.5%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 January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 351 domestic departures from San Luis Obispo County Regional (SBP). 83.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.1% reached their destination on time; 0.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so SBP departures were 9.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SBP that month were on time 79.2% of the time (351 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 46%, air carrier 41% and national aviation system 11%.

On time 82.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.7%
Cancelled 0.3%
Diverted 0.0%

Every scheduled departure from SBP in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	SBP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	83.5%	—	78.8%	74.0%
Arrived on time	82.1%	—	75.3%	72.9%
Cancelled	0.3%	—	1.2%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.2 min	—	20.9 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	12	—	14	18,242
Scheduled departures	351	—	5,010	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	258	74%	81.4%	6.2 min	0.4%
AA American Airlines	39	11%	71.8%	21.2 min	0.0%
UA United Airlines	31	9%	93.5%	-9.3 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	23	7%	91.3%	5.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBP–PHX	San Luis Obispo to Phoenix	93	88.2%	7.2 min	0.0%
SBP–SFO	San Luis Obispo to San Francisco	71	80.3%	1.4 min	0.0%
SBP–DEN	San Luis Obispo to Denver	62	90.3%	-6.9 min	0.0%
SBP–DFW	San Luis Obispo to Dallas/Fort Worth	31	67.7%	14.6 min	0.0%
SBP–LAS	San Luis Obispo to Las Vegas	31	67.7%	24.5 min	0.0%
SBP–LAX	San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles	31	83.9%	18.1 min	3.2%
SBP–SAN	San Luis Obispo to San Diego	18	83.3%	0.6 min	0.0%
SBP–PDX	San Luis Obispo to Portland	7	100.0%	-2.4 min	0.0%
SBP–SEA	San Luis Obispo to Seattle	7	42.9%	20.4 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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	41.4%	32.6%	2,249
Late-arriving aircraft	46.1%	39.0%	2,504
National Aviation System	10.6%	17.9%	574
Extreme weather	1.9%	10.3%	105
Security	0.0%	0.2%	0

5,432 delay minutes on 62 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 SBP on time in January 2024?

83.5% of 351 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for SBP · methodology · corrections.