On-Time Report

Airports › Santa Ana (SNA) › July 2025

Airport month · July 2025

John Wayne Airport-Orange County in July 2025

75.1%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 2025, reporting carriers scheduled 4,002 domestic departures from John Wayne Airport-Orange County (SNA). 75.1% left less than 15 minutes late and 74.2% reached their destination on time; 1.4% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 69.7% of flights departed on time and 69.0% arrived on time, so SNA departures were 5.4 points above the national departure figure.

A year earlier, in July 2024, the airport had 3,697 departures with 77.4% leaving on time: a change of −2.3 points, with flights up 8%.

Flights arriving at SNA that month were on time 76.0% of the time (4,001 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 42%, national aviation system 28% and air carrier 25%.

Every scheduled departure from SNA in July 2025, judged by arrival at the destination.

July 2025 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

MeasureJul 2025Jul 2024SNA, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Jul 2025
Departed on time75.1%77.4%78.9%69.7%
Arrived on time74.2%77.5%80.3%69.0%
Cancelled1.4%2.5%1.1%2.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)18.7 min18.9 min15.2 min24.3 min
Scheduled departures a day13312312421,048
Scheduled departures4,0023,69745,231631,428

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
WN Southwest Airlines1,26632%76.9%6.7 min1.8%
AA American Airlines59415%67.8%17.0 min1.7%
UA United Airlines54714%69.7%17.4 min0.9%
OO SkyWest Airlines47112%76.4%9.9 min0.4%
AS Alaska Airlines39610%82.1%0.9 min3.0%
DL Delta Air Lines39610%78.3%10.6 min0.3%
NK Spirit Airlines1253%77.6%4.2 min0.8%
G4 Allegiant Air1233%48.8%52.6 min2.4%
F9 Frontier Airlines842%71.4%19.5 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
SNA–LASSanta Ana to Las Vegas41477.8%9.2 min1.4%
SNA–SFOSanta Ana to San Francisco39874.9%7.3 min0.8%
SNA–PHXSanta Ana to Phoenix38278.5%10.4 min1.0%
SNA–SEASanta Ana to Seattle37878.6%3.9 min2.1%
SNA–DENSanta Ana to Denver34766.3%17.0 min0.3%
SNA–DFWSanta Ana to Dallas/Fort Worth26265.6%15.9 min3.1%
SNA–OAKSanta Ana to Oakland21976.7%5.2 min1.8%
SNA–SJCSanta Ana to San Jose21780.2%1.7 min1.8%
SNA–SMFSanta Ana to Sacramento20977.5%4.7 min2.9%
SNA–ORDSanta Ana to Chicago20571.7%7.8 min1.0%
SNA–SLCSanta Ana to Salt Lake City14785.7%-3.7 min0.0%
SNA–PDXSanta Ana to Portland11989.9%-4.7 min2.5%

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), July 2025.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Jul 2025Minutes
Air carrier25.3%31.1%17,451
Late-arriving aircraft41.7%40.8%28,760
National Aviation System28.2%20.7%19,445
Extreme weather4.8%7.3%3,325
Security0.0%0.1%27
69,008 delay minutes on 955 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
← June 2025August 2025 →

Questions and answers

How many flights left SNA on time in July 2025?

75.1% of 4,002 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 74.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 69.7% and 69.0%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

In July 2024, 77.4% of 3,697 departures left on time and 2.5% were cancelled, against 75.1% and 1.4% in July 2025.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for July 2025; 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.