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One route, as origin and destination codes joined by a hyphen, e.g. ATL-LGA. Shows the airlines with enough flights on it, up to four.

Airlines on SJC → SAN

Every airline with at least 200 flights on this route, over the route's reporting period.

SkyWest Airlines is clearly ahead of the rest on 1 of 4 rates; the other 3 are too close to call: SkyWest Airlines and Spirit Airlines on 1, Southwest Airlines, SkyWest Airlines, and Spirit Airlines on 1, Southwest Airlines and SkyWest Airlines on 1.

Airlines on SJC → SAN compared
MetricSouthwest AirlinesSkyWest AirlinesSpirit Airlines
On-time arrival · too close to call75.7%78.5% (best, but too close to call)77.7% (too close to call with the best)
Cancellation rate · too close to call0.95%0.91%1.26%
Severe delay (60+ min) · too close to call5.5% (too close to call with the best)5.1% (best, but too close to call)7.9%
Average arrival delay8 min7 min (best)8 min
Median arrival delay-1 min-2 min-5 min (best)
Departure on-time78.8%88.1% (best)81.6%
Flights analyzed12,0533,617875

A check mark and green mark the best figure in a row (higher for on-time rates, lower for delays and cancellations) when it is clearly better than every other side’s: a two-proportion test against each, on that side’s flight count, at about 95% confidence. When it is not, the row says “too close to call” and a “≈” marks the sides that cannot be told apart from the best figure. Average and median delay carry no sample-error estimate here, so they are marked by the printed figure alone.

SJC → SAN (San Jose to San Diego · 417 mi): July 2023 – July 2026. FlyerIntel keeps one total per airline for the route, not the dates each airline started or stopped flying it, so an airline that flew the route for only part of that time is measured over that part.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · Airlines with fewer than 200 flights on this route are left out.

Month by month

There is no month-by-month chart for these airlines. FlyerIntel keeps monthly figures for each route and for each airline across its whole network, but not for one airline on one route. The SJC → SAN route page shows the route’s own trend.