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Airport month · January 2024
San Francisco International in January 2024
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 10,133 domestic departures from San Francisco International (SFO). 73.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 73.9% reached their destination on time; 5.7% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so SFO departures were level with the national departure figure.
Flights arriving at SFO that month were on time 69.1% of the time (10,128 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 46%, air carrier 35% and national aviation system 14%.
- On time 73.9%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.2%
- Cancelled 5.7%
- Diverted 0.2%
January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | Jan 2024 | Year earlier | SFO, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, Jan 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 73.8% | — | 75.1% | 74.0% |
| Arrived on time | 73.9% | — | 75.6% | 72.9% |
| Cancelled | 5.7% | — | 1.0% | 3.7% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 16.8 min | — | 17.8 min | 18.7 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 338 | — | 404 | 18,242 |
| Scheduled departures | 10,133 | — | 147,566 | 547,271 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA United Airlines | 3,565 | 35% | 72.0% | 5.6 min | 9.3% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 2,949 | 29% | 79.3% | 6.3 min | 0.6% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 887 | 9% | 85.5% | -1.9 min | 0.5% |
| AS Alaska Airlines | 782 | 8% | 56.4% | 6.8 min | 26.5% |
| AA American Airlines | 753 | 7% | 73.4% | 18.3 min | 0.8% |
| WN Southwest Airlines | 586 | 6% | 67.4% | 9.8 min | 0.5% |
| B6 JetBlue Airways | 338 | 3% | 76.6% | 8.3 min | 0.0% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 195 | 2% | 69.2% | 27.1 min | 0.5% |
| HA Hawaiian Airlines | 64 | 1% | 57.8% | 13.8 min | 6.3% |
| MQ Envoy Air | 14 | 0% | 64.3% | 12.4 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SFO–LAX | San Francisco to Los Angeles | 857 | 75.5% | 2.7 min | 4.8% |
| SFO–SEA | San Francisco to Seattle | 489 | 72.6% | 2.7 min | 10.4% |
| SFO–JFK | San Francisco to New York | 474 | 76.8% | 1.1 min | 7.6% |
| SFO–SAN | San Francisco to San Diego | 459 | 73.4% | 3.4 min | 6.8% |
| SFO–LAS | San Francisco to Las Vegas | 423 | 65.0% | 19.7 min | 12.1% |
| SFO–DEN | San Francisco to Denver | 399 | 71.2% | 7.0 min | 5.8% |
| SFO–PHX | San Francisco to Phoenix | 363 | 73.6% | 8.8 min | 3.0% |
| SFO–SNA | San Francisco to Santa Ana | 325 | 80.0% | 4.7 min | 0.0% |
| SFO–ORD | San Francisco to Chicago | 296 | 75.7% | 8.6 min | 7.8% |
| SFO–DFW | San Francisco to Dallas/Fort Worth | 294 | 66.0% | 26.8 min | 0.7% |
| SFO–BUR | San Francisco to Burbank | 293 | 83.3% | 1.4 min | 0.3% |
| SFO–EWR | San Francisco to Newark | 288 | 73.3% | 10.7 min | 4.9% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left SFO on time in January 2024?
73.8% of 10,133 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 73.9% 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 SFO · methodology · corrections.