San Luis Obispo County Regional in May 2024

86.3%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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 400 domestic departures from San Luis Obispo County Regional (SBP). 86.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 84.8% reached their destination on time; 0.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so SBP departures were 12.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SBP that month were on time 78.9% of the time (402 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 45%, air carrier 27% and extreme weather 15%.

On time 84.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 14.8%
Cancelled 0.5%
Diverted 0.0%

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

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

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	SBP, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	86.3%	—	78.8%	73.4%
Arrived on time	84.8%	—	75.3%	72.3%
Cancelled	0.5%	—	1.2%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	15.6 min	—	20.9 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	13	—	14	20,325
Scheduled departures	400	—	5,010	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
OO SkyWest Airlines	280	70%	87.9%	2.4 min	0.0%
AA American Airlines	88	22%	70.5%	30.8 min	2.3%
UA United Airlines	32	8%	96.9%	-7.2 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SBP–PHX	San Luis Obispo to Phoenix	94	87.2%	6.5 min	0.0%
SBP–LAX	San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles	62	93.5%	6.4 min	0.0%
SBP–SFO	San Luis Obispo to San Francisco	62	82.3%	0.2 min	0.0%
SBP–DEN	San Luis Obispo to Denver	61	86.9%	3.5 min	0.0%
SBP–DFW	San Luis Obispo to Dallas/Fort Worth	57	68.4%	32.2 min	3.5%
SBP–SAN	San Luis Obispo to San Diego	31	90.3%	1.0 min	0.0%
SBP–SEA	San Luis Obispo to Seattle	23	82.6%	3.4 min	0.0%
SBP–PDX	San Luis Obispo to Portland	10	90.0%	-3.5 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 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	26.7%	29.8%	1,658
Late-arriving aircraft	44.5%	43.0%	2,761
National Aviation System	14.1%	20.1%	876
Extreme weather	14.7%	7.0%	911
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

6,206 delay minutes on 59 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 May 2024?

86.3% of 400 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 84.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 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 May 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.