OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

SFOSAN

San Francisco to San Diego

447 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SFO–SAN arrive on time 71% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate71%arrived within 15 min
Median delayon timetypical arrival
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worsetail risk
Cancelled0.9%of scheduled flights

based on 6,363 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • United Airlines
    On-time79%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights2,538
  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time69%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel1.8%
    Flights1,843
  • Alaska Airlinesbest
    On-time88%
    Medianon time
    p9020 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights244
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time60%
    Median5 min
    p9065 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights1,702
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p90105 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights36

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline21%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)26%
  • Late aircraft49%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

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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.