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Airport month · June 2024

Sacramento International in June 2024

77.2%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 June 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 4,756 domestic departures from Sacramento International (SMF). 77.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.3% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.7% of flights departed on time and 73.9% arrived on time, so SMF departures were 3.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SMF that month were on time 74.0% of the time (4,756 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 52%, air carrier 31% and national aviation system 14%.

Every scheduled departure from SMF in June 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureJun 2024Year earlierSMF, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jun 2024
Departed on time77.2%—80.0%73.7%
Arrived on time79.3%—81.4%73.9%
Cancelled0.6%—0.7%1.3%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)14.7 min—12.1 min19.7 min
Scheduled departures a day159—15420,371
Scheduled departures4,756—56,306611,132

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines2,61355%77.1%7.6 min0.3%
OO SkyWest Airlines68414%83.3%3.4 min0.3%
UA United Airlines3918%84.9%2.5 min1.5%
AA American Airlines3277%79.8%7.8 min1.5%
DL Delta Air Lines2796%89.2%-2.3 min0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines1613%73.9%10.0 min3.1%
AS Alaska Airlines1102%72.7%8.9 min0.9%
HA Hawaiian Airlines902%95.6%-8.6 min0.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways481%58.3%73.5 min0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines271%33.3%45.0 min0.0%
MQ Envoy Air261%92.3%-4.1 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
SMF–SANSacramento to San Diego47371.2%12.2 min1.1%
SMF–LASSacramento to Las Vegas45478.0%5.5 min0.7%
SMF–LAXSacramento to Los Angeles43280.8%3.2 min0.7%
SMF–DENSacramento to Denver37981.0%4.2 min0.5%
SMF–SEASacramento to Seattle36274.9%9.4 min0.3%
SMF–PHXSacramento to Phoenix28182.6%4.1 min0.0%
SMF–BURSacramento to Burbank22779.3%5.4 min1.3%
SMF–SNASacramento to Santa Ana17984.9%1.1 min0.0%
SMF–SLCSacramento to Salt Lake City17091.8%1.4 min0.0%
SMF–LGBSacramento to Long Beach16586.1%0.3 min0.0%
SMF–DFWSacramento to Dallas/Fort Worth16172.7%16.7 min1.9%
SMF–ONTSacramento to Ontario14376.9%12.0 min0.0%

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), June 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jun 2024Minutes
Air carrier31.1%34.4%17,924
Late-arriving aircraft51.8%41.5%29,893
National Aviation System14.0%17.8%8,074
Extreme weather2.8%6.0%1,593
Security0.4%0.2%220
57,704 delay minutes on 944 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left SMF on time in June 2024?

77.2% of 4,756 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.3% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.7% and 73.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

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