John Wayne Airport-Orange County in February 2024

80.7%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 February 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 3,408 domestic departures from John Wayne Airport-Orange County (SNA). 80.7% left less than 15 minutes late and 82.6% reached their destination on time; 0.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 84.0% of flights departed on time and 83.4% arrived on time, so SNA departures were 3.3 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SNA that month were on time 82.3% of the time (3,408 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, national aviation system 36%, late-arriving aircraft 34% and air carrier 28%.

On time 82.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 16.4%
Cancelled 0.8%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from SNA in February 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

Measure	Feb 2024	Year earlier	SNA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Feb 2024
Departed on time	80.7%	—	78.9%	84.0%
Arrived on time	82.6%	—	80.3%	83.4%
Cancelled	0.8%	—	1.1%	0.6%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	13.4 min	—	15.2 min	11.2 min
Scheduled departures a day	114	—	124	17,307
Scheduled departures	3,408	—	45,231	519,221

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,157	34%	83.6%	0.7 min	0.8%
AA American Airlines	547	16%	86.7%	2.6 min	0.4%
UA United Airlines	456	13%	85.7%	0.2 min	0.4%
AS Alaska Airlines	334	10%	87.4%	-5.4 min	0.9%
OO SkyWest Airlines	333	10%	52.0%	26.6 min	3.3%
DL Delta Air Lines	317	9%	90.9%	-8.7 min	0.0%
G4 Allegiant Air	90	3%	92.2%	-6.5 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	87	3%	88.5%	-5.8 min	0.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	87	3%	79.3%	6.7 min	1.1%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SNA–PHX	Santa Ana to Phoenix	355	87.0%	-0.2 min	0.3%
SNA–SEA	Santa Ana to Seattle	311	89.1%	-9.9 min	1.0%
SNA–LAS	Santa Ana to Las Vegas	310	75.8%	7.2 min	0.6%
SNA–SFO	Santa Ana to San Francisco	310	45.8%	38.0 min	3.5%
SNA–DEN	Santa Ana to Denver	263	84.4%	1.0 min	0.4%
SNA–DFW	Santa Ana to Dallas/Fort Worth	225	88.9%	-5.4 min	0.0%
SNA–SJC	Santa Ana to San Jose	221	86.0%	-2.3 min	0.5%
SNA–OAK	Santa Ana to Oakland	183	83.1%	-0.4 min	1.6%
SNA–SMF	Santa Ana to Sacramento	183	84.2%	1.4 min	1.6%
SNA–ORD	Santa Ana to Chicago	164	86.6%	-1.5 min	1.2%
SNA–SLC	Santa Ana to Salt Lake City	116	93.1%	-6.9 min	0.0%
SNA–IAH	Santa Ana to Houston	112	92.9%	-13.2 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), February 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Feb 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.3%	35.9%	11,004
Late-arriving aircraft	34.0%	36.9%	13,197
National Aviation System	36.2%	21.7%	14,056
Extreme weather	1.5%	5.3%	586
Security	0.0%	0.3%	5

38,848 delay minutes on 558 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 February 2024?

80.7% of 3,408 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 82.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 84.0% and 83.4%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

February 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 February 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.