BUR Airport: 82.8% on time, worst at 9 PM

BUR right now

Live conditions where a permitted source publishes them, and the historical record where none does.

No disruption reported

Aviation weather is not currently a factor.

Aviation weatherVFR

70°F · wind 0 kt

Minimal operational impact. Conditions are not a notable factor for operations right now.

Updated 08:53 UTC

Forecast issued 05:36Z.

Updated 05:36 UTC

Aircraft seen now

On the field0

Airborne within 15 NM1

Departed in the last hour0

Arrived in the last hour0

Below 10,000 ft, so aircraft overflying at cruise are not counted. These are observations, not an operational status: a count is a floor, since receiver coverage varies and a movement between two samples can be missed.

Updated 08:45 UTC

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Parking

Economy Lot C $16/day$16.00/day

Economy Lot E $28/day$28.00/day

Economy Lot F $28/day$28.00/day

Economy Lot G $26/day$26.00/day

Structure: Level 1—

Structure: Level 2—

Structure: Level 3—

Structure: Level 4—

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Airport reliability

Departures from BUR, July 2023 – July 2026.

Airport Reliability Score

74/ 100Good

Better than 84% of major US airports covered by FlyerIntel (64 compared)

Calculated from 93,645 flights. How this is calculated

Departures arriving on time

82.8%

76,335 of 92,240 completed

Cancellation rate

1.25%

1,173 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-8 min

Average 2.3 min

Severe delays

5.5%

Arrived 60+ minutes late

Delay when late

63 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Departures analyzed

93,645

93,650 arrivals

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

What stands out

How this airport compares to others like it, not just to itself.

The airline matters unusually much at this airport, a wider carrier-to-carrier gap than 98% of 218 comparable airports.

Southwest Airlines arrived on time 84.5% of the time, against 54.7% for JetBlue, flying out of the exact same airport.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other airport with the same kind of figure and at least 218 in the comparison.

Why flights are cancelled at BUR

Every cancellation carries a reason code filed by the airline that operated the flight. Departures, July 2023 – July 2026.

The airline accounts for 47.5% of cancelled departures from BUR — about 1 in every 168 scheduled departures. That is 22 points higher than the 25.8% recorded across every airport FlyerIntel covers.

Share of cancellations

Airline47.5%

Weather42.1%

Air traffic10.4%

Security0.0%

Of 1,173 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

The airline1 in 168

Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.

557 cancellations, 47.5% of the total.

Extreme weather1 in 190

Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.

494 cancellations, 42.1% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 768

Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.

122 cancellations, 10.4% of the total.

Security—

A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.

0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.

1,173 of 93,645 scheduled departures from BUR were cancelled. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026 · Reason codes are each airline’s own filing, not an independent finding of fault. Shown for airports with at least 500 coded cancellations; 1,173 were recorded at BUR.

Why flights run late at BUR

Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on departures from BUR.

Late-arriving aircraft48.6%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

Air traffic control25.5%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

The airline22.4%

crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control

Weather3.4%

weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically

Security0.1%

screening or terminal security incidents

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for departures from BUR. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Of the 15,803 departures from BUR that left 15 or more minutes late and have a known inbound aircraft, 68% followed a flight that landed 15 or more minutes late. The other 32% left late even though the aircraft had come in on time or early. Across the 64 covered airports that share runs from 47% to 73%, with a median of 62%; BUR’s is the 6th highest.

The late flight is the one the same aircraft flew into BUR just before, found from the tail number in the DOT file. Airlines and hours differ from one airport to the next, so this describes the departures from BUR and does not rate the airport.

An airport is only partly the author of its own delays. Late-arriving aircraft describes the national schedule arriving here more than anything about this airfield. Air traffic control covers airspace and airport capacity, which is where a congested airport shows up; only the airline category sits squarely inside the carriers’ own operation. How differently they run it is further down this page.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

What weather costs at BUR

Departures from BUR by the weather at the airport in the hour they were scheduled to leave, July 2023 – July 2026.

4.8% of scheduled departures from BUR left in an hour of bad weather. 4.9% of them were cancelled, against 1.0% in normal conditions, and 78.3% of the ones that flew arrived on time, against 82.8%. Those hours held 19% of all cancelled departures. That is about 177 more cancellations than the normal-conditions rate would give.

Cancellations were highest in LIFR hours: 4.5% of 953 departures, 4.5 times the normal rate.

Airlines filed 42% of BUR’s coded cancellations under extreme weather. By the weather at the airport in the scheduled hour, 19% of cancelled departures were in bad-weather hours. A code is the airline’s stated reason and an hour’s weather is what the airport reported, so the two need not match.

By weather

Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026

Cancellation and on-time rates at BUR by the weather at the airport in the scheduled departure hour
Weather at the airport	Departures	Cancelled	Left on time	Arrived on time	Avg. departure delay
Normal conditionsVFR with no thunderstorm, snow or ice, fog, heavy rain or high wind	79,42784.9% of all	1.0%	81.4%	82.8%	8.5 min
Any bad weatherIFR or LIFR, or a thunderstorm, snow or ice, fog, heavy rain or high wind	4,5294.8% of all	4.9%4.9 times normal	79.0%	78.3%4.5 points below normal	15.0 min
MVFRceiling 1,000 to 3,000 feet or visibility 3 to 5 miles	9,61010.3% of all	1.5%	84.3%	84.5%1.7 points above normal	6.7 min
IFRceiling 500 to 999 feet or visibility 1 to under 3 miles	3,2223.4% of all	4.5%4.4 times normal	83.1%	83.3%	10.2 min
LIFRceiling under 500 feet or visibility under 1 mile	9531.0% of all	4.5%4.5 times normal	68.0%	65.8%17.0 points below normal	28.7 min
Fogfog or freezing fog reported at the airport	3050.3% of all	6.6%6.5 times normal	61.4%	55.1%27.7 points below normal	36.5 min
Heavy rainheavy rain reported at the airport	2920.3% of all	21.2%20.9 times normal	62.6%	69.6%13.2 points below normal	35.9 min
High windwind of 25 knots or more, or gusts of 30 knots or more	3550.4% of all	14.1%13.9 times normal	67.9%	64.6%18.2 points below normal	24.7 min
Low ceilinga broken or overcast layer under 1,000 feet	3,4563.7% of all	2.8%2.8 times normal	80.2%	79.6%3.2 points below normal	13.6 min
Low visibilityvisibility under 3 miles	2,4252.6% of all	6.8%6.7 times normal	73.1%	72.9%9.9 points below normal	21.8 min

A departure is counted in every row its hour fits, so the rows overlap and do not add up. Left on time is a departure under 15 minutes late, and arrived on time an arrival under 15 minutes late; cancelled is the share of scheduled departures. Rows with fewer than 120 departures are not scored. Too few departures to score: thunderstorm (34).

This is the weather reported at BUR in the hour a flight was scheduled to leave. It leaves out the weather at the destination and on the way, weather that arrived after the scheduled time, and anything else that goes wrong in a bad hour. An hour takes the worst conditions any report in it gave. Weather was matched to 99.9% of the airport’s scheduled departures; the rest left in hours with no report, or at a scheduled time the flight records cannot place exactly. Bad-weather hours are compared with normal hours at the same airport, not with what the same flights would have done in a clear sky: they also fall more often in some seasons and at some times of day.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS flight records and Iowa Environmental Mesonet weather reports · July 2023 – July 2026 · Where the weather comes from, and its limits. All covered airports side by side: What Weather Costs Each Airport.

Turning aircraft around at BUR

Time on the ground between one flight and the next of the same aircraft at BUR, and what a late arrival does to the next departure, July 2023 – July 2026.

The median turn at BUR is scheduled for 40 minutes on the ground and takes 48 minutes, against 56 minutes and 63 minutes across all airports. Aircraft are given less time on the ground here than at the typical airport. The 8 minutes by which the typical turn runs over its schedule are about what it is across all airports.

When the aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late (12,983 turns here, 51 minutes late on average), 71% of the turns were finished in no more than the scheduled ground time, against 68% across all airports. 81% of those flights left 15 or more minutes late, against 72%. After an aircraft that landed on time, 7% did (all airports 11%).

Given the turn lengths scheduled here, the network’s rates would give 53% finished in the schedule and 87% leaving late. BUR does better on both counts: more late turns are finished in the schedule and fewer late aircraft become late departures, so the turn recovers lateness here beyond what the schedule explains. 59% of its late-inbound turns had a scheduled turn of 30 to 44 minutes, against 20% across all airports.

Turns at BUR against all airports

74,571 turns, July 2023 – July 2026

Aircraft turns at BUR against all airports: scheduled and actual time on the ground and what a late inbound aircraft does
Measure	BUR	All airports	All airports, same turn lengths
Median scheduled turn	40 min	56 min	—
Median actual turn	48 min	63 min	—
Turns that began with an aircraft 15+ minutes late	17%	19%	—
Late turns finished within the schedule	71%	68%	53%
Late inbound that left 15+ minutes late	81%	72%	87%
On-time inbound that left 15+ minutes late	7%	11%	—

The last column is the network’s rate at the turn lengths scheduled at BUR, band by band from under 30 minutes to 3 to 6 hours. A turn finishes within the schedule when the aircraft spent no more time on the ground than the schedule gave it.

A turn pairs an aircraft’s landing at BUR with its next departure from it by tail number; the aircraft is never named. These 74,571 turns are 80% of the flights that left BUR in the period; the rest are an aircraft’s first flight after a long stay, flights without a usable inbound, and cancelled flights. Ground time runs from the gate. Turns under 30 minutes are kept, but most leave late even after an on-time landing. Airlines set their own turn schedules, so this describes the airlines that fly at BUR and does not rate the airport.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS flight records · July 2023 – July 2026 · Airports side by side: Where a Late Aircraft Gets Its Time Back.

What sets BUR apart

Where BUR’s hours, months, airlines and taxi time differ most from the other airports, July 2023 – July 2026.

Flights scheduled to leave BUR at 5 PM arrive on time 80.3% of the time, 10 points better than the 70.3% for that hour at the other airports.

9 PM is where BUR falls furthest behind the rest: 64.9% of its 9 PM departures arrive on time, 6.3 points below the 71.2% for that hour elsewhere.

July treats BUR better than it treats the rest of the country: 80.8% on time against 70.1% elsewhere, 10.7 points ahead.

American Airlines does better out of BUR than anywhere else it flies: 82.7% on time here, 74.8% on its other departures, 7.9 points apart.

JetBlue’s departures from BUR arrive on time 54.7% of the time, 17.8 points worse than the 72.5% the same airline manages at its other airports.

BUR against the other airports

July 2023 – July 2026

Where BUR differs most from the other covered airports, with the flights behind each figure
Measure	BUR	Elsewhere	Gap	Flights behind it
Hour: 5 PM departures	80.3%	70.3%	+10.0 pts	5,245 here, 1,064,322 elsewhere
Hour: 9 PM departures	64.9%	71.2%	−6.3 pts	1,206 here, 683,105 elsewhere
Month: July	80.8%	70.1%	+10.7 pts	10,577 here, 1,975,906 elsewhere
Airline: American Airlines	82.7%	74.8%	+7.9 pts	3,044 here, 2,953,595 elsewhere
Airline: JetBlue	54.7%	72.5%	−17.8 pts	711 here, 725,603 elsewhere

"Elsewhere" is every other covered airport together, taken from the same aggregates as this page with BUR’s own flights removed (for airlines, that airline’s flights from all its other airports). Hours, months and airlines appear only where both sides have at least 120 completed flights (airlines 500) and the gap is at least 2 points and 2 standard errors; only the largest gap in each direction is shown. The taxi figure is weighted by departures and has no error estimate, so it appears from 2 minutes.

Best time to fly from BUR

On-time arrival rate by scheduled local departure time: each weekday and hour, and averaged over the week.

Flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 90.9% of the time, against 65.1% for 9 PM–5 AM departures — a gap of 25.8 percentage points.

By day and hour

On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time.

Saturday 7–8 AM was the most reliable slot at BUR (94.7% on time, 1,750 flights) and Sunday 8–9 PM the least (66.0%, 1,064 flights).

Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 6.0 points from the airport-wide rate, weekday averages 3.5 points.

On-time arrival rate at BUR by weekday and scheduled departure hour, local time. Each button reads out one slot.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
7 AM–8 AM
8 AM–9 AM
9 AM–10 AM
10 AM–11 AM
11 AM–12 PM
12 PM–1 PM
1 PM–2 PM
2 PM–3 PM
3 PM–4 PM
4 PM–5 PM
5 PM–6 PM
6 PM–7 PM
7 PM–8 PM
8 PM–9 PM
9 PM–10 PM

On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time

50–59
60–69
70–79
80–89
90–99

Most reliable slot
Least reliable slot

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · On time is arrival within 15 minutes of schedule. Cells round to whole percentages; the table shows one decimal.

Best and worst slots are named only among slots with 500+ flights, and only when the gap is larger than sampling error. Departures after 10 PM (9 flights) are not drawn: no slot in those hours has enough flights to score.

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On-time arrival rate (%) with flights beneath, by scheduled departure hour and weekday at BUR. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
7 AM–8 AM	92.4% on time1,880 flights	93.3% on time1,747 flights	92.9% on time1,738 flights	92.1% on time1,869 flights	91.3% on time1,876 flights	94.7% on time1,750 flights	92.7% on time1,813 flights
8 AM–9 AM	87.0% on time1,045 flights	87.6% on time956 flights	90.4% on time950 flights	87.0% on time1,071 flights	86.2% on time1,047 flights	87.2% on time867 flights	87.4% on time1,032 flights
9 AM–10 AM	87.4% on time1,049 flights	91.6% on time932 flights	92.6% on time944 flights	89.6% on time1,035 flights	86.9% on time1,042 flights	90.8% on time812 flights	87.6% on time1,022 flights
10 AM–11 AM	86.7% on time1,084 flights	87.6% on time948 flights	88.5% on time952 flights	87.1% on time1,097 flights	82.7% on time1,095 flights	86.6% on time846 flights	83.2% on time1,002 flights
11 AM–12 PM	87.1% on time871 flights	91.0% on time768 flights	91.0% on time760 flights	86.9% on time854 flights	80.4% on time853 flights	88.8% on time647 flights	84.4% on time797 flights
12 PM–1 PM	80.6% on time1,034 flights	87.3% on time954 flights	82.6% on time971 flights	77.3% on time1,051 flights	75.6% on time1,025 flights	82.7% on time746 flights	78.3% on time968 flights
1 PM–2 PM	76.0% on time1,185 flights	84.8% on time990 flights	83.5% on time972 flights	73.8% on time1,191 flights	70.7% on time1,192 flights	84.5% on time925 flights	76.0% on time1,103 flights
2 PM–3 PM	77.0% on time842 flights	87.4% on time750 flights	82.3% on time768 flights	78.2% on time871 flights	71.5% on time847 flights	84.2% on time686 flights	71.7% on time876 flights
3 PM–4 PM	78.5% on time880 flights	85.0% on time834 flights	81.7% on time832 flights	76.2% on time882 flights	75.3% on time895 flights	85.0% on time503 flights	74.0% on time830 flights
4 PM–5 PM	76.8% on time999 flights	84.9% on time861 flights	87.7% on time845 flights	70.5% on time978 flights	75.2% on time1,007 flights	87.2% on time727 flights	75.2% on time913 flights
5 PM–6 PM	80.2% on time857 flights	87.0% on time705 flights	85.4% on time696 flights	76.2% on time846 flights	74.1% on time865 flights	88.2% on time602 flights	74.5% on time733 flights
6 PM–7 PM	78.7% on time792 flights	84.9% on time753 flights	79.7% on time785 flights	72.6% on time785 flights	73.0% on time805 flights	85.6% on time626 flights	72.5% on time839 flights
7 PM–8 PM	76.5% on time831 flights	83.3% on time602 flights	81.9% on time643 flights	76.4% on time846 flights	70.8% on time845 flights	83.3% on time468 flights	72.7% on time853 flights
8 PM–9 PM	77.4% on time942 flights	84.7% on time600 flights	80.1% on time630 flights	74.3% on time917 flights	73.6% on time953 flights	82.2% on time492 flights	66.0% on time1,064 flights
9 PM–10 PM	62.1% on time183 flights	67.5% on time173 flights	67.1% on time160 flights	56.6% on time174 flights	66.9% on time188 flights	73.4% on time178 flights	61.5% on time221 flights

By departure window

All days combined

5–9 AM90.9%

9 AM–12 PM87.5%

12–3 PM79.0%

3–6 PM79.4%

6–9 PM76.8%

9 PM–5 AM65.1%

By departure hour

All days combined

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Buckets with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.

What parking will cost

Estimated from BUR's own published rates.

Where you would park

Arriving

Returning

Estimated cost

Choose a facility and both dates to see an estimate.

Rates as published by the airport, last read 2026-08-31. Confirm before you travel.

Source: Hollywood Burbank Airport · An estimate from published standard rates. Airports vary surcharges, oversize vehicle fees and event pricing, so confirm the price with the airport before you travel.

What to expect at BUR

How busy the airport is through the day, from scheduled departure volume.

Departures a day

83

Average across the analysis period

Busiest hour

7 AM

About 11 departures

Typical taxi-out

17.3 min

Pushback to wheels-up, on departure

Typical taxi-in

4.4 min

Touchdown to gate, on arrival

Scheduled departures by hour

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

The busiest hour is 7 AM, with about 11 departures a day, against roughly 1 at 9 PM. That peak is also more punctual than a typical hour here: early banks fly aircraft that spent the night on the ground rather than ones inheriting the day’s delays.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Taxi-out runs from gate to wheels-up, averaged over departures and weighted by hour. Taxi-in runs from touchdown to gate.

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon82.1%

Tue87.5%

Wed86.3%

Thu80.6%

Fri78.6%

Sat87.2%

Sun79.1%

Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Friday the least, a gap of 8.9 percentage points.

By month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

June is historically the weakest month and January the strongest, a spread of 6.9 percentage points.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Airlines at BUR

Departure performance by operating carrier. Regional flights are reported by the carrier that operated them, not by the mainline brand.

Airlines at BUR
Carrier	Departures	On time	Cancelled	Median delay
Southwest Airlines WN	57,496	84.5%	1.20%	-9 min
SkyWest Airlines OO	12,445	80.9%	0.92%	-9 min
Alaska Airlines AS	7,439	84.2%	1.73%	-7 min
United Airlines UA	5,519	74.0%	0.96%	-6 min
Spirit Airlines NK	4,058	79.1%	2.02%	-6 min
American Airlines AA	3,113	82.7%	1.38%	-12 min
Delta Air Lines DL	1,674	81.6%	1.43%	-10 min
JetBlue B6	757	54.7%	4.10%	10 min
Envoy Air MQ	532	83.7%	0.56%	-8 min

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Carriers with fewer than 500 departures are not listed.

Routes from BUR

Ranked by FlyerIntel Route Reliability Score.

Most reliable

LASLas Vegas69

Least reliable

LASLas Vegas69

Busiest routes

Busiest routes from BUR
Destination	Flights	On time	Score
BUR → LAS Las Vegas	13,445	80.6%	69

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Only routes with at least 10,000 flights are ranked.

See all 2 routes to and from BUR →

Reliability over time

On-time arrival rate for departures, by month.

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Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), departures from BUR arrived on time 82.2% of the time, against 83.4% in the 12 months before — broadly unchanged.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Data and sources

Historical statistics

Every historical figure on this page is calculated by FlyerIntel from US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics on-time performance records covering July 2023 – July 2026, comprising 93,645 departures from BUR. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule.

Full methodology · All data sources

Analysis last recomputed September 26, 2026

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Live conditions

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Latest observation for BUR: METAR KBUR 180853Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 21/04 A3001 RMK AO2 SLP146 T02110044 58004 (issued 08:53 UTC).