John Wayne Airport-Orange County in July 2024

77.4%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 3,697 domestic departures from John Wayne Airport-Orange County (SNA). 77.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.5% reached their destination on time; 2.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 68.5% of flights departed on time and 68.1% arrived on time, so SNA departures were 8.9 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SNA that month were on time 75.9% of the time (3,697 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 48%, air carrier 36% and national aviation system 15%.

On time 77.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 19.6%
Cancelled 2.5%
Diverted 0.4%

Every scheduled departure from SNA 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	SNA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jul 2024
Departed on time	77.4%	—	78.9%	68.5%
Arrived on time	77.5%	—	80.3%	68.1%
Cancelled	2.5%	—	1.1%	2.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	18.9 min	—	15.2 min	24.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	123	—	124	21,154
Scheduled departures	3,697	—	45,231	634,613

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,179	32%	80.9%	2.2 min	1.0%
UA United Airlines	549	15%	74.0%	9.6 min	2.7%
AA American Airlines	547	15%	79.9%	14.9 min	1.8%
DL Delta Air Lines	444	12%	72.1%	23.7 min	4.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines	331	9%	78.5%	4.0 min	0.9%
AS Alaska Airlines	327	9%	87.8%	-3.1 min	1.2%
G4 Allegiant Air	118	3%	53.4%	56.9 min	6.8%
NK Spirit Airlines	112	3%	68.8%	15.6 min	7.1%
F9 Frontier Airlines	90	2%	67.8%	9.6 min	11.1%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SNA–PHX	Santa Ana to Phoenix	363	76.6%	13.1 min	3.3%
SNA–SEA	Santa Ana to Seattle	351	83.8%	-0.4 min	2.6%
SNA–SFO	Santa Ana to San Francisco	349	78.2%	2.3 min	1.4%
SNA–DEN	Santa Ana to Denver	322	77.3%	5.2 min	1.2%
SNA–LAS	Santa Ana to Las Vegas	308	72.4%	9.6 min	4.2%
SNA–DFW	Santa Ana to Dallas/Fort Worth	227	81.5%	5.7 min	1.3%
SNA–OAK	Santa Ana to Oakland	224	80.8%	1.6 min	0.9%
SNA–SJC	Santa Ana to San Jose	215	84.7%	-1.0 min	1.9%
SNA–SMF	Santa Ana to Sacramento	181	85.1%	1.1 min	0.6%
SNA–ORD	Santa Ana to Chicago	171	75.4%	5.6 min	0.6%
SNA–SLC	Santa Ana to Salt Lake City	147	76.2%	17.1 min	2.7%
SNA–IAH	Santa Ana to Houston	124	66.9%	12.2 min	5.6%

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	35.7%	36.6%	22,324
Late-arriving aircraft	48.2%	42.7%	30,104
National Aviation System	14.5%	16.0%	9,063
Extreme weather	1.5%	4.6%	928
Security	0.1%	0.1%	89

62,508 delay minutes on 725 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 July 2024?

77.4% of 3,697 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.5% 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 SNA · methodology · corrections.