John Wayne Airport-Orange County in March 2024

78.3%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 3,790 domestic departures from John Wayne Airport-Orange County (SNA). 78.3% left less than 15 minutes late and 78.2% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so SNA departures were level with the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SNA that month were on time 81.4% of the time (3,789 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 37%, national aviation system 35% and air carrier 25%.

On time 78.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 20.8%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	SNA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	78.3%	—	78.9%	78.5%
Arrived on time	78.2%	—	80.3%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	1.1%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.9 min	—	15.2 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	126	—	124	19,726
Scheduled departures	3,790	—	45,231	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,279	34%	83.0%	2.8 min	0.7%
AA American Airlines	595	16%	74.8%	15.0 min	1.2%
UA United Airlines	536	14%	87.5%	-3.2 min	0.0%
DL Delta Air Lines	381	10%	87.1%	-2.9 min	0.5%
OO SkyWest Airlines	375	10%	44.5%	27.5 min	0.5%
AS Alaska Airlines	338	9%	82.5%	1.2 min	0.9%
G4 Allegiant Air	99	3%	69.7%	27.8 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	94	2%	72.3%	10.4 min	1.1%
NK Spirit Airlines	93	2%	80.6%	6.6 min	1.1%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SNA–PHX	Santa Ana to Phoenix	379	79.2%	11.3 min	0.0%
SNA–SFO	Santa Ana to San Francisco	344	34.6%	35.9 min	0.6%
SNA–LAS	Santa Ana to Las Vegas	328	69.5%	14.3 min	1.2%
SNA–DEN	Santa Ana to Denver	323	88.9%	-4.7 min	1.5%
SNA–SEA	Santa Ana to Seattle	308	83.8%	1.5 min	0.6%
SNA–DFW	Santa Ana to Dallas/Fort Worth	252	77.0%	6.1 min	1.6%
SNA–SJC	Santa Ana to San Jose	233	90.6%	-2.0 min	0.4%
SNA–OAK	Santa Ana to Oakland	223	89.7%	-1.3 min	0.4%
SNA–ORD	Santa Ana to Chicago	197	81.7%	0.4 min	0.5%
SNA–SMF	Santa Ana to Sacramento	194	82.0%	4.3 min	0.0%
SNA–SLC	Santa Ana to Salt Lake City	143	89.5%	-5.1 min	0.0%
SNA–IAH	Santa Ana to Houston	119	95.0%	-8.9 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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	25.3%	32.1%	13,119
Late-arriving aircraft	37.4%	42.1%	19,403
National Aviation System	35.3%	21.4%	18,293
Extreme weather	1.7%	4.2%	906
Security	0.2%	0.2%	97

51,818 delay minutes on 788 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 March 2024?

78.3% of 3,790 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 78.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.