John Wayne Airport-Orange County in January 2024

81.5%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 3,642 domestic departures from John Wayne Airport-Orange County (SNA). 81.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 80.9% reached their destination on time; 1.1% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so SNA departures were 7.5 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SNA that month were on time 80.9% of the time (3,642 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 44%, air carrier 32% and national aviation system 19%.

On time 80.9%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 17.9%
Cancelled 1.1%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from SNA 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	SNA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	81.5%	—	78.9%	74.0%
Arrived on time	80.9%	—	80.3%	72.9%
Cancelled	1.1%	—	1.1%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.0 min	—	15.2 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	121	—	124	18,242
Scheduled departures	3,642	—	45,231	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,254	34%	81.7%	1.3 min	1.0%
AA American Airlines	565	16%	76.5%	13.8 min	0.9%
UA United Airlines	496	14%	90.3%	-5.2 min	1.6%
AS Alaska Airlines	358	10%	75.1%	6.0 min	2.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	345	9%	85.8%	-1.2 min	0.0%
OO SkyWest Airlines	331	9%	73.1%	10.4 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	102	3%	91.2%	-1.7 min	1.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	96	3%	76.0%	18.5 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	95	3%	71.6%	37.0 min	3.2%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SNA–PHX	Santa Ana to Phoenix	377	80.4%	9.1 min	1.1%
SNA–LAS	Santa Ana to Las Vegas	341	81.8%	3.6 min	0.9%
SNA–SEA	Santa Ana to Seattle	339	77.6%	3.9 min	1.8%
SNA–SFO	Santa Ana to San Francisco	325	71.4%	13.2 min	0.0%
SNA–DEN	Santa Ana to Denver	291	85.9%	-3.6 min	2.4%
SNA–SJC	Santa Ana to San Jose	239	86.6%	-3.1 min	0.0%
SNA–DFW	Santa Ana to Dallas/Fort Worth	229	76.4%	14.2 min	1.3%
SNA–OAK	Santa Ana to Oakland	211	80.1%	0.5 min	0.0%
SNA–SMF	Santa Ana to Sacramento	195	85.1%	2.0 min	0.5%
SNA–ORD	Santa Ana to Chicago	176	83.0%	1.3 min	1.1%
SNA–SLC	Santa Ana to Salt Lake City	130	84.6%	-0.4 min	0.0%
SNA–IAH	Santa Ana to Houston	113	90.3%	-6.3 min	3.5%

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), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	32.4%	32.6%	14,648
Late-arriving aircraft	43.5%	39.0%	19,684
National Aviation System	18.9%	17.9%	8,541
Extreme weather	4.8%	10.3%	2,187
Security	0.4%	0.2%	173

45,233 delay minutes on 651 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 SNA on time in January 2024?

81.5% of 3,642 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 80.9% 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 SNA · methodology · corrections.