Southwest Airlines SMF to LAX on-time performance
Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Sacramento to Los Angeles · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
On-time arrivals
77%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.3%
5 flights
Avg arrival delay
12 min
48 min when late
Rank on route
#4 of 5
route average 85% on time
Key facts
- Southwest Airlines flights on SMF to LAX arrived on time 77% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
- 0.3% were cancelled, and 5% arrived an hour or more late.
- That ranks #4 of 5 airlines on this route, which averaged 85% on time overall.
- The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (69%).
On-time trend by month
Why this airline's flights were late
- Late-arriving aircraft69%
- Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)21%
- Air traffic control & airport congestion9%
- Extreme weather1%
- Security0%
Other airlines on SMF to LAX
- SkyWest Airlines90% on time · 10 min avg delay
- Frontier Airlines73% on time · 17 min avg delay
- United Airlines92% on time · 8 min avg delay
- Delta Air Lines96% on time · 1 min avg delay
Full SMF to LAX comparison →
Southwest Airlines on-time record across all routes →
1,631 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 5 cancelled, 1 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.