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Southwest Airlines BUR to SMF on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Burbank to Sacramento · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
86%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
1.6%
43 flights
Avg arrival delay
8 min
55 min when late
Rank on route
#1 of 1
route average 86% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on BUR to SMF arrived on time 86% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 1.6% were cancelled, and 4% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #1 of 1 airlines on this route, which averaged 86% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (74%).

On-time trend by month

60%80%100%July 2025: 88.8% on time, 2.5% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 87.7% on time, 1.7% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 89.4% on time, 0.4% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 78.0% on time, 2.5% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 82.3% on time, 1.7% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 85.4% on time, 3.9% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 94.6% on time, 0.5% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 90.4% on time, 2.7% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 91.7% on time, 2.7% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 86.8% on time, 1.3% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 86.2% on time, 0.4% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 78.5% on time, 0.5% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 87.6% on time, 1.0% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft74%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)20%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion4%
  • Extreme weather1%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on BUR to SMF

2,609 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 43 cancelled, 0 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.