OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Santa Barbara to Atlanta

2,023 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SBA–ATL arrive on time 76% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate76%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay70 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.7%of scheduled flights

based on 336 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9070 min
    Cancel2.7%
    Flights336

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline58%
  • Weather8%
  • Air traffic (NAS)6%
  • Late aircraft26%
  • Security1%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly SBA → ATL

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

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 72% to 91% on time.

  • Thursdays91% on time · p90 10 min · 80 flights · limited
  • Mondays88% on time · p90 15 min · 82 flights · limited
  • Fridays81% on time · p90 120 min · 81 flights · limited
  • Saturdays78% on time · p90 40 min · 82 flights · limited
  • Sundays76% on time · p90 55 min · 82 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays76% on time · p90 95 min · 82 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays72% on time · p90 80 min · 82 flights · limited
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Related pages

Delay predictorfor this route→SBA airportSanta Barbara→ATL airportAtlanta→Delta Air Lines on this routecarrier detail→Delta Air Linesairline profile→

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.