OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

San Antonio to San Diego

1,129 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SAT–SAN arrive on time 80% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate80%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.3%of scheduled flights

based on 623 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.3%
    Flights623

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline28%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)15%
  • Late aircraft57%
  • Security0%

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 SAT → SAN

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

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 91% on time.

  • Mornings91% on time · p90 10 min · 545 flights
  • Middays84% on time · p90 20 min · 473 flights
  • Afternoons71% on time · p90 60 min · 161 flights · limited
  • Evenings70% on time · p90 55 min · 526 flights
  • Overnights47% on time · p90 60 min · 58 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 75% to 83% on time.

  • Wednesdays83% on time · p90 25 min · 256 flights
  • Tuesdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 256 flights
  • Mondays80% on time · p90 35 min · 250 flights
  • Saturdays80% on time · p90 35 min · 227 flights
  • Fridays79% on time · p90 25 min · 250 flights
  • Sundays77% on time · p90 40 min · 278 flights
  • Thursdays75% on time · p90 45 min · 246 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.