BUR → LAS Flight Reliability

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Origin · BURNo disruption reported

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Updated 08:53 UTC

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Destination · LASNo disruption reported

Aviation weather is not currently a factor.

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Route reliability

July 2023 – July 2026

Route Reliability Score

69/ 100Good

Better than 58% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)

Calculated from 13,445 flights. How this is calculated

On-time arrivals

80.6%

10,642 of 13,209

Cancellation rate

1.70%

229 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-7 min

Average 4.4 min

Severe delays

6.3%

60+ minutes late

Delay when late

60 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Flights analyzed

13,445

2 carriers

BUR → LAS arrives on time 80.6% of the time; the return trip, LAS → BUR, arrives on time 79.4% of the time.

BUR → LAS spends 24.5 minutes on the ground on a 223-mile trip: 17.3 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at BUR and 7.1 minutes from touchdown to gate at LAS.

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

What stands out

This route holds up about the same all year, a steadier seasonal pattern than 99% of 3,357 comparable routes.

84.5% on time in its best month (February) against 77.0% in its worst (July).

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 3,357 in the comparison.

Why BUR → LAS flights are cancelled

July 2023 – July 2026

BUR → LAS cancelled 229 of 13,445 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 59. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 45.0% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 131 scheduled flights.

Share of cancellations

Weather45.0%

Airline43.2%

Air traffic11.8%

Security0.0%

Of 229 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

Extreme weather1 in 131

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

103 cancellations, 45.0% of the total.

The airline1 in 136

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

99 cancellations, 43.2% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 498

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

27 cancellations, 11.8% 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.

Reason codes are the operating airline’s own filing with US DOT, not an independent finding of fault. With only one or two carriers on the route, the split mostly reflects how they file. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.

229 coded cancellations were recorded on BUR → LAS; the section appears from 50.

When it goes wrong

July 2023 – July 2026

One arrival in ten is worse than

39 min late

against a median of 7 min early

Arrived an hour or more late6.3%

Typical delay when late60 min

Cancelled1.70%

Landed somewhere else0.05%

Percentiles over 13,445 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.

Will your connection be tight enough?

Layovers at LAS after arriving from BUR.

Connection buffer and chance of missing by layover length, BUR → LAS arrivals
Connection time	Chance of missing	Reads as
30 min	34%	Likely to miss
45 min	19%	High risk
60 min	12%	Some risk
90 min	6.1%	Some risk
120 min	3.6%	Low risk

This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 1.70% of the time and diverts 0.05% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.

Chance of missing is the share of 13,209 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.

The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 39 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 13,445 operations.

Any other layover length: connection checker.

Best time to fly

BUR → LAS flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 93.4% of the time, against 73.9% for 3–6 PM departures, a gap of 19.5 percentage points.

By day and hour

On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time at the departure airport (BUR).

Hour of departure and day of the week matter about equally: hourly averages sit a typical 7.4 points from the route-wide rate, weekday averages 5.9 points.

On-time arrival rate for BUR to LAS 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

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

50–59
60–69
70–79
80–89
90–99

Fewer than 120 flights, not scored

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.

No slot is named best or worst: too few reach 500 flights. Departures after 9 PM (390 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 for BUR to LAS. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
7 AM–8 AM	93.8% on time164 flights	93.1% on time145 flights	94.5% on time147 flights	95.1% on time162 flights	93.1% on time163 flights	99.3% on time139 flights	95.0% on time161 flights
8 AM–9 AM	91.2% on time178 flights	114 flights, too few to score	111 flights, too few to score	90.9% on time178 flights	91.4% on time175 flights	91 flights, too few to score	96.3% on time165 flights
9 AM–10 AM	109 flights, too few to score	92.2% on time129 flights	96.9% on time134 flights	115 flights, too few to score	113 flights, too few to score	94 flights, too few to score	91.2% on time152 flights
10 AM–11 AM	85.8% on time155 flights	85.8% on time149 flights	86.2% on time155 flights	91.7% on time158 flights	79.6% on time159 flights	115 flights, too few to score	87.4% on time153 flights
11 AM–12 PM	84.9% on time189 flights	97 flights, too few to score	96 flights, too few to score	81.9% on time165 flights	72.7% on time163 flights	112 flights, too few to score	82.4% on time139 flights
12 PM–1 PM	114 flights, too few to score	85.9% on time152 flights	85.6% on time153 flights	114 flights, too few to score	115 flights, too few to score	89 flights, too few to score	71.8% on time132 flights
1 PM–2 PM	82.8% on time129 flights	42 flights, too few to score	43 flights, too few to score	68.3% on time129 flights	55.0% on time121 flights	85 flights, too few to score	100 flights, too few to score
2 PM–3 PM	112 flights, too few to score	82.7% on time145 flights	82.6% on time153 flights	69.6% on time152 flights	68.6% on time123 flights	115 flights, too few to score	71.3% on time159 flights
3 PM–4 PM	118 flights, too few to score	115 flights, too few to score	99 flights, too few to score	113 flights, too few to score	114 flights, too few to score	64 flights, too few to score	116 flights, too few to score
4 PM–5 PM	72.2% on time133 flights	116 flights, too few to score	118 flights, too few to score	55.4% on time124 flights	59.6% on time137 flights	118 flights, too few to score	73.6% on time126 flights
5 PM–6 PM	71.8% on time145 flights	79.2% on time130 flights	86.8% on time122 flights	66.0% on time163 flights	55.5% on time158 flights	90 flights, too few to score	68.7% on time153 flights
6 PM–7 PM	82.0% on time124 flights	105 flights, too few to score	116 flights, too few to score	65.3% on time121 flights	61.1% on time134 flights	117 flights, too few to score	72.0% on time120 flights
7 PM–8 PM	72.8% on time208 flights	78.5% on time155 flights	89.0% on time156 flights	77.0% on time183 flights	64.3% on time213 flights	86.0% on time121 flights	72.3% on time176 flights
8 PM–9 PM	74.9% on time174 flights	105 flights, too few to score	106 flights, too few to score	66.7% on time160 flights	73.7% on time177 flights	116 flights, too few to score	63.7% on time175 flights

By departure window

5–9 AM93.4%

9 AM–12 PM86.5%

12–3 PM75.6%

3–6 PM73.9%

6–9 PM75.7%

9 PM–5 AM82.1%

By departure hour

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Why BUR → LAS runs late

July 2023 – July 2026

Late-arriving aircraft48.0%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

Air traffic control38.9%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

The airline11.1%

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

Weather1.9%

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 BUR → LAS. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on BUR → LAS, at 48.0%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 93.4% of the time and 3–6 PM departures 73.9%.

How this route holds up in bad weather

July 2023 – July 2026

The harder-hit end is the one the flight leaves from, where a cancellation keeps it from departing at all. Bad weather cancels 4.9 times the normal rate at BUR against 2.4 times at LAS. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: BUR 4.9% against 1.0%, LAS 2.0% against 0.8%. Flights that did leave LAS in bad weather arrived on time 58.5% of the time, against 78.5% in normal hours.

Bad weather and normal hours at the airports

Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026

Departures from BUR and LAS in hours of bad weather and in normal hours
Departures from	BUR	LAS
Cancelled in bad weather	4.9%	2.0%
Cancelled in normal hours	1.0%	0.8%
Arrived on time, bad weather	78.3%	58.5%
Arrived on time, normal hours	82.8%	78.5%
Departures in bad weather	4,529	14,522

These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from BUR and LAS, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad.

Weather source and limits. In full: BUR, LAS, What Weather Costs Each Airport, Who Cancels More When the Weather Turns, Airports That Change Places When Weather Turns.

Airlines on this route

Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.

Airlines on this route
Carrier	Flights	On time	Cancelled	Median delay	Severe
Southwest Airlines	10,018	81.0%	1.56%	-7 min	5.7%
Spirit Airlines	3,270	79.7%	2.17%	-7 min	7.7%

Southwest Airlines flew 75.4% of the 13,288 flights listed.

Carriers on this route performed within a couple of percentage points of each other.

Other ways to fly Los Angeles to Las Vegas

Airport pairs in the same two city markets, as the DOT defines them.

Other ways to fly Los Angeles to Las Vegas
Route	Flights	On time	Cancelled	Median delay	Score
LAX→LAS Los Angeles to Las Vegas	28,255	76.7%	0.75%	-5 min	66
BUR→LAS this route Burbank to Las Vegas	13,445	80.6%	1.70%	-7 min	69
SNA→LAS Santa Ana to Las Vegas	12,675	81.3%	1.05%	-6 min	72

SNA → LAS is the most reliable pairing for this journey at 81.3% on time, against 76.7% for LAX → LAS.

Flying to LAS from the Los Angeles area? Compare BUR, LAX, SNA, ONT for LAS, with the same test for what counts as a real difference.

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon81.1%

Tue86.1%

Wed87.5%

Thu75.7%

Fri71.5%

Sat88.2%

Sun78.1%

Saturday is historically the most reliable day and Friday the least, a gap of 16.7 percentage points.

By month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

July is historically the weakest month and February the strongest, a spread of 7.5 percentage points.

Reliability over time

July 2023 – July 2026

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25

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Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 81.0% against 82.0% in the 12 months before — broadly unchanged.

Data and methodology

Calculated by FlyerIntel from 13,445 BUR → LAS flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.

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Analysis last recomputed September 26, 2026

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BUR→LAS

Right now

Route reliability

What stands out

Why BUR → LAS flights are cancelled

Share of cancellations

What each reason means

When it goes wrong

Will your connection be tight enough?

Best time to fly

By day and hour

By departure window

By departure hour

Why BUR → LAS runs late

How this route holds up in bad weather

Bad weather and normal hours at the airports

Airlines on this route

Other ways to fly Los Angeles to Las Vegas

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

By month

Reliability over time

Data and methodology