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Southwest Airlines SMF to BUR on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
85%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
1.8%
47 flights
Avg arrival delay
8 min
52 min when late
Rank on route
#1 of 1
route average 85% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on SMF to BUR arrived on time 85% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 1.8% were cancelled, and 4% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #1 of 1 airlines on this route, which averaged 85% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (66%).

On-time trend by month

60%80%100%July 2025: 88.4% on time, 2.1% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 87.6% on time, 1.7% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 85.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 80.6% on time, 2.9% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 80.8% on time, 2.1% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 80.6% on time, 3.5% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 87.6% on time, 0.5% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 90.9% on time, 2.7% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 85.2% on time, 3.1% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 89.5% on time, 1.3% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 79.9% on time, 0.4% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 89.4% on time, 1.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 89.8% on time, 2.0% 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)20%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion13%
  • Extreme weather1%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on SMF to BUR

2,606 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 47 cancelled, 11 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.