OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Las Vegas to Santa Barbara

289 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on LAS–SBA arrive on time 75% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate75%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.3%of scheduled flights

based on 864 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel1.3%
    Flights864

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline23%
  • Weather1%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • Late aircraft66%
  • Security1%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly LAS → SBA

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 63% to 84% on time.

  • Mornings84% on time · p90 20 min · 400 flights
  • Middays82% on time · p90 20 min · 658 flights
  • Evenings77% on time · p90 50 min · 265 flights
  • Overnights66% on time · p90 55 min · 801 flights
  • Afternoons63% on time · p90 55 min · 594 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 66% to 83% on time.

  • Saturdays83% on time · p90 25 min · 278 flights
  • Wednesdays79% on time · p90 25 min · 370 flights
  • Tuesdays78% on time · p90 40 min · 371 flights
  • Mondays70% on time · p90 45 min · 446 flights
  • Sundays69% on time · p90 35 min · 360 flights
  • Thursdays69% on time · p90 45 min · 444 flights
  • Fridays66% on time · p90 60 min · 449 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.