LAS → BUR Flight Reliability

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Origin · LASNo disruption reported

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Updated 02:56 UTC

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Route reliability

July 2023 – July 2026

Route Reliability Score

69/ 100Good

Better than 61% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)

Calculated from 13,373 flights. How this is calculated

On-time arrivals

79.4%

10,446 of 13,148

Cancellation rate

1.44%

192 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-7 min

Average 4.1 min

Severe delays

6.3%

60+ minutes late

Delay when late

56 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Flights analyzed

13,373

2 carriers

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

LAS → BUR spends 20.0 minutes on the ground on a 223-mile trip: 15.9 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at LAS and 4.1 minutes from touchdown to gate at BUR.

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

Why LAS → BUR flights are cancelled

July 2023 – July 2026

LAS → BUR cancelled 192 of 13,373 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 70. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 47.9% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 145 scheduled flights.

Share of cancellations

Weather47.9%

Airline40.1%

Air traffic12.0%

Security0.0%

Of 192 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

Extreme weather1 in 145

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

92 cancellations, 47.9% of the total.

The airline1 in 174

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

77 cancellations, 40.1% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 581

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

23 cancellations, 12.0% 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.

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

When it goes wrong

July 2023 – July 2026

One arrival in ten is worse than

40 min late

against a median of 7 min early

Arrived an hour or more late6.3%

Typical delay when late56 min

Cancelled1.44%

Landed somewhere else0.25%

Percentiles over 13,373 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.

Will your connection be tight enough?

Layovers at BUR after arriving from LAS.

Connection buffer and chance of missing by layover length, LAS → BUR arrivals
Connection time	Chance of missing	Reads as
30 min	35%	Likely to miss
45 min	20%	High risk
60 min	13%	Some risk
90 min	6.2%	Some risk
120 min	3.2%	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 1.44% of the time and diverts 0.25% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.

Chance of missing is the share of 13,148 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 40 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 13,373 operations.

Any other layover length: connection checker.

Best time to fly

LAS → BUR flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 92.4% of the time, against 68.4% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 24.0 percentage points.

By day and hour

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

Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 9.3 points from the route-wide rate, weekday averages 5.2 points.

On-time arrival rate for LAS to BUR by weekday and scheduled departure hour, local time. Each button reads out one slot.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6 AM–7 AM
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

40–49
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.

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On-time arrival rate (%) with flights beneath, by scheduled departure hour and weekday for LAS to BUR. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6 AM–7 AM	94.3% on time148 flights	79 flights, too few to score	75 flights, too few to score	95.9% on time149 flights	94.1% on time156 flights	73 flights, too few to score	94.7% on time135 flights
7 AM–8 AM	90.9% on time180 flights	96.1% on time156 flights	95.6% on time164 flights	92.9% on time184 flights	88.4% on time182 flights	117 flights, too few to score	91.1% on time182 flights
8 AM–9 AM	87.8% on time142 flights	95.2% on time128 flights	116 flights, too few to score	88.8% on time146 flights	86.2% on time145 flights	119 flights, too few to score	87.9% on time158 flights
9 AM–10 AM	88.5% on time203 flights	86.1% on time123 flights	119 flights, too few to score	86.3% on time179 flights	83.0% on time178 flights	92.3% on time132 flights	85.9% on time158 flights
10 AM–11 AM	80.8% on time127 flights	94.3% on time124 flights	88.0% on time120 flights	88.2% on time121 flights	85.6% on time120 flights	54 flights, too few to score	107 flights, too few to score
11 AM–12 PM	75.6% on time132 flights	94 flights, too few to score	117 flights, too few to score	82.8% on time134 flights	75.6% on time132 flights	86 flights, too few to score	75.2% on time134 flights
12 PM–1 PM	113 flights, too few to score	108 flights, too few to score	107 flights, too few to score	81.9% on time147 flights	109 flights, too few to score	79 flights, too few to score	72.9% on time157 flights
1 PM–2 PM	103 flights, too few to score	83 flights, too few to score	86 flights, too few to score	106 flights, too few to score	103 flights, too few to score	84 flights, too few to score	97 flights, too few to score
2 PM–3 PM	110 flights, too few to score	84.6% on time123 flights	81.7% on time128 flights	103 flights, too few to score	113 flights, too few to score	87.5% on time121 flights	62.3% on time124 flights
3 PM–4 PM	116 flights, too few to score	117 flights, too few to score	118 flights, too few to score	69.3% on time141 flights	62.8% on time132 flights	84 flights, too few to score	64.2% on time138 flights
4 PM–5 PM	118 flights, too few to score	108 flights, too few to score	107 flights, too few to score	103 flights, too few to score	60.8% on time128 flights	86.3% on time156 flights	79 flights, too few to score
5 PM–6 PM	70.0% on time152 flights	98 flights, too few to score	99 flights, too few to score	67.9% on time134 flights	64.1% on time156 flights	74 flights, too few to score	66.9% on time156 flights
6 PM–7 PM	75.5% on time165 flights	80.9% on time142 flights	82.2% on time135 flights	60.1% on time139 flights	66.9% on time166 flights	70.2% on time122 flights	58.3% on time154 flights
7 PM–8 PM	74.1% on time139 flights	80.7% on time120 flights	112 flights, too few to score	59.1% on time135 flights	64.0% on time142 flights	113 flights, too few to score	63.9% on time161 flights
8 PM–9 PM	64.9% on time155 flights	79.5% on time134 flights	76.3% on time131 flights	59.1% on time154 flights	53.2% on time158 flights	98 flights, too few to score	47.7% on time152 flights

By departure window

5–9 AM92.4%

9 AM–12 PM85.5%

12–3 PM77.9%

3–6 PM72.3%

6–9 PM68.4%

By departure hour

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Why LAS → BUR runs late

July 2023 – July 2026

Late-arriving aircraft49.5%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

The airline29.8%

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

Air traffic control18.5%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

Weather2.1%

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

Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on LAS → BUR, at 49.5%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 92.4% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 68.4%.

How this route holds up in bad weather

July 2023 – July 2026

The harder-hit end is BUR, where the flight lands. Its figure counts departures from BUR, so it says more about how that airport copes than about this route. Bad weather cancels 4.9 times the normal rate at BUR against 2.4 times at LAS. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: LAS 2.0% against 0.8%, BUR 4.9% against 1.0%. 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 LAS and BUR in hours of bad weather and in normal hours
Departures from	LAS	BUR
Cancelled in bad weather	2.0%	4.9%
Cancelled in normal hours	0.8%	1.0%
Arrived on time, bad weather	58.5%	78.3%
Arrived on time, normal hours	78.5%	82.8%
Departures in bad weather	14,522	4,529

Spirit Airlines (3.8% cancelled against 2.3% for the other carriers at LAS) cancelled more departures from LAS in bad weather than the other carriers there did in the same months. None of the route’s other carriers was clearly better.

This route’s airlines in bad weather at LAS

All departures from LAS

Cancellation rates in bad weather at LAS for the airlines that fly LAS to BUR, against the other carriers at LAS in the same months
Airline	Bad-weather departures	Cancelled	Other carriers
Southwest Airlines	6,925	2.0%about level	2.1%
Spirit Airlines	1,398	3.8%above the others	2.3%

These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from LAS and BUR, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad. The airline rows count each carrier’s departures from LAS on every route.

Weather source and limits. In full: LAS (airlines), BUR, 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	9,950	77.6%	1.35%	-5 min	6.5%
Spirit Airlines	3,266	84.9%	1.71%	-11 min	5.5%

Southwest Airlines flew 75.3% of the 13,216 flights listed.

Spirit Airlines arrived on time 7.3 percentage points more often than Southwest Airlines on this route.

Other ways to fly Las Vegas to Los Angeles

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

Other ways to fly Las Vegas to Los Angeles
Route	Flights	On time	Cancelled	Median delay	Score
LAS→LAX Las Vegas to Los Angeles	28,239	77.6%	0.68%	-5 min	69
LAS→BUR this route Las Vegas to Burbank	13,373	79.4%	1.44%	-7 min	69
LAS→SNA Las Vegas to Santa Ana	12,678	81.0%	0.88%	-7 min	76

LAS → SNA is the most reliable pairing for this journey at 81.0% on time, against 77.6% for LAS → LAX.

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon79.0%

Tue86.5%

Wed85.1%

Thu76.7%

Fri74.0%

Sat85.6%

Sun73.0%

Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 13.5 percentage points.

By month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

July is historically the weakest month and January the strongest, a spread of 11.4 percentage points.

Reliability over time

July 2023 – July 2026

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Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 79.4% against 82.4% in the 12 months before — declining by 3.0 percentage points.

Data and methodology

Calculated by FlyerIntel from 13,373 LAS → BUR 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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Route reliability

Why LAS → BUR 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 LAS → BUR runs late

How this route holds up in bad weather

Bad weather and normal hours at the airports

This route’s airlines in bad weather at LAS

Airlines on this route

Other ways to fly Las Vegas to Los Angeles

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

By month

Reliability over time

Data and methodology