OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

SMFLAX

Sacramento to Los Angeles

373 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SMF–LAX arrive on time 88% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate88%arrived within 15 min
Median delayon timetypical arrival
p90 delay15 min1 in 10 flights is worsetail risk
Cancelled0.3%of scheduled flights

based on 5,360 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Delta Air Linesbest
    On-time97%
    Medianon time
    p90on time
    Cancel1.1%
    Flights91
  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time91%
    Medianon time
    p9010 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights3,650
  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time81%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel0.2%
    Flights1,619

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline49%
  • Weather7%
  • Air traffic (NAS)6%
  • Late aircraft38%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

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.