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Southwest Airlines SJC to LAX on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from San Jose to Los Angeles · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
78%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.5%
10 flights
Avg arrival delay
11 min
46 min when late
Rank on route
#4 of 6
route average 86% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on SJC to LAX arrived on time 78% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.5% were cancelled, and 5% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #4 of 6 airlines on this route, which averaged 86% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (66%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 79.4% on time, 0.6% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 75.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 79.1% on time, 0.6% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 74.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 77.5% on time, 0.7% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 77.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 93.9% on time, 0.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 79.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 86.2% on time, 1.2% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 83.8% on time, 0.6% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 82.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 62.0% on time, 1.2% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 67.0% on time, 1.6% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft66%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)21%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion12%
  • Security0%
  • Extreme weather0%

Other airlines on SJC to LAX

Full SJC to LAX comparison →
Southwest Airlines on-time record across all routes →

1,844 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 10 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.