Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International in July 2024

80.4%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 July 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 4,516 domestic departures from Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International (SJC). 80.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.8% reached their destination on time; 1.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 68.5% of flights departed on time and 68.1% arrived on time, so SJC departures were 11.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SJC that month were on time 75.7% of the time (4,516 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 45%, air carrier 34% and national aviation system 20%.

On time 79.8%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.8%
Cancelled 1.3%
Diverted 0.1%

Every scheduled departure from SJC in July 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Jul 2024	Year earlier	SJC, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jul 2024
Departed on time	80.4%	—	80.9%	68.5%
Arrived on time	79.8%	—	81.9%	68.1%
Cancelled	1.3%	—	0.7%	2.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.1 min	—	10.9 min	24.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	151	—	119	21,154
Scheduled departures	4,516	—	43,338	634,613

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	2,516	56%	80.9%	4.6 min	0.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines	738	16%	82.7%	4.3 min	0.1%
NK Spirit Airlines	317	7%	63.4%	21.9 min	4.4%
AS Alaska Airlines	283	6%	83.4%	1.2 min	1.4%
DL Delta Air Lines	192	4%	78.6%	3.6 min	7.8%
UA United Airlines	183	4%	77.0%	14.9 min	3.8%
AA American Airlines	91	2%	67.0%	20.1 min	0.0%
MQ Envoy Air	83	2%	88.0%	0.5 min	1.2%
HA Hawaiian Airlines	62	1%	96.8%	-13.8 min	0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways	31	1%	67.7%	24.5 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	20	0%	65.0%	32.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SJC–LAX	San Jose to Los Angeles	527	76.7%	8.2 min	0.9%
SJC–SAN	San Jose to San Diego	522	72.8%	12.0 min	0.8%
SJC–SEA	San Jose to Seattle	431	79.8%	5.3 min	0.7%
SJC–LAS	San Jose to Las Vegas	386	76.4%	8.9 min	1.3%
SJC–PHX	San Jose to Phoenix	283	82.3%	3.9 min	0.4%
SJC–DEN	San Jose to Denver	282	81.6%	7.5 min	1.4%
SJC–SNA	San Jose to Santa Ana	215	81.9%	-1.4 min	2.8%
SJC–PDX	San Jose to Portland	199	81.9%	6.1 min	0.5%
SJC–BUR	San Jose to Burbank	192	82.3%	3.2 min	3.1%
SJC–SLC	San Jose to Salt Lake City	168	86.9%	-2.9 min	3.6%
SJC–HNL	San Jose to Honolulu	124	93.5%	-6.7 min	0.8%
SJC–DFW	San Jose to Dallas/Fort Worth	122	65.6%	21.1 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), July 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jul 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	33.5%	36.6%	17,774
Late-arriving aircraft	45.3%	42.7%	24,040
National Aviation System	19.7%	16.0%	10,427
Extreme weather	1.4%	4.6%	735
Security	0.2%	0.1%	83

53,059 delay minutes on 849 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 SJC on time in July 2024?

80.4% of 4,516 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.8% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 68.5% and 68.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

July 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 July 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for SJC · methodology · corrections.