OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Santa Ana to Atlanta

1,919 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SNA–ATL arrive on time 81% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate81%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.9%of scheduled flights

based on 1,073 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-time81%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.9%
    Flights1,073

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline66%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)8%
  • Late aircraft26%
  • Security0%

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 SNA → ATL

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

Best time of day

Overnights are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 89% on time.

  • Overnights89% on time · p90 10 min · 543 flights
  • Mornings86% on time · p90 20 min · 1,096 flights
  • Afternoons80% on time · p90 30 min · 286 flights
  • Middays75% on time · p90 45 min · 1,219 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 76% to 86% on time.

  • Tuesdays86% on time · p90 20 min · 380 flights
  • Mondays84% on time · p90 25 min · 495 flights
  • Wednesdays83% on time · p90 30 min · 393 flights
  • Saturdays83% on time · p90 30 min · 356 flights
  • Thursdays82% on time · p90 25 min · 508 flights
  • Fridays80% on time · p90 40 min · 510 flights
  • Sundays76% on time · p90 50 min · 502 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.