Airport month record

BURAPR

Hollywood Burbank in April 2026

Departures: 2,455
Month: April 2026
National, same month: 79.8%
Carriers: 8

Historical statistics for April 2026, not live status or a forecast for this year’s April. For today’s conditions at BUR, see live FAA status.

BUR in April lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 79.8%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by roughly 55 minutes on average. That rests on 2,455 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

On time

82.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,436 completed departures

Avg delay

53 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.69%

Nationally in April: 0.90%

Whole year

81.6%

BUR across all twelve months

These figures cover 2,455 departures from Hollywood Burbank in April 2026. On time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the DOT's threshold, and the national comparison uses every US departure in the same month rather than the whole year.

Against the year

April next to BUR's other months

Against BUR's own year, April ran level with the twelve-month rate of 81.6%, which makes it number five of twelve months, best first. Cancellations were unusually low for BUR in April, at 0.69% against 1.27% across the year. Either side of it, March ran 85.4% on time and May 79.0%, so this month sits in line with its neighbours.

BUR month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
September 2025	2,496	85.5%	68 min	0.56%	A+
October 2025	2,624	79.0%	60 min	1.07%	B
November 2025	2,604	80.4%	77 min	2.00%	B
December 2025	2,623	81.2%	76 min	2.10%	B
January 2026	2,141	88.0%	75 min	1.26%	A
February 2026	2,134	86.6%	74 min	2.06%	A
March 2026	2,556	85.4%	68 min	1.29%	A
April 2026 (this page)	2,455	82.2%	53 min	0.69%	B+
May 2026	2,520	79.0%	65 min	1.07%	B
June 2026	2,535	76.9%	59 min	1.22%	B
July 2026	2,626	79.3%	64 min	1.07%	B
August 2026	2,602	78.1%	62 min	0.88%	B+

Departure window

The best time of day to leave BUR in April

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 18 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am349 flights93.4%
8am–11am531 flights85.3%
11am–2pm501 flights83.4%
2pm–5pm503 flights75.6%
5pm–8pm410 flights75.8%
8pm–5am161 flights81.4%

Scale runs 65% to 100%.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.4% of the time, against 75.6% for the afternoon window. That is 18 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 531 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 90.1% on time and Thursday the weakest at 76.0%, a spread of 14 points.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at BUR in April

Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.

Carriers at BUR in April 2026
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	1,436	82.3%	50 min	0.56%	B+
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	320	88.8%	48 min	0.00%	A+
United Airlinesthin sample	225	65.2%	57 min	0.44%	C+
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	204	92.1%	44 min	0.98%	A+
Delta Air Linesthin sample	72	88.6%	187 min	2.78%	A
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	63	80.3%	53 min	3.17%	B−
American Airlinesthin sample	60	81.0%	38 min	3.33%	B−
Envoy Airthin sample	34	79.4%	60 min	0.00%	B+

Route by route

Busiest routes out of BUR in April

Routes from BUR in April 2026
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
BUR to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	349	80.0%	50 min	1.15%	B
BUR to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	276	84.4%	58 min	0.00%	B+
BUR to SFO · San Franciscothin sample	271	45.5%	53 min	0.74%	F+
BUR to SMF · Sacramentothin sample	223	86.8%	50 min	1.35%	A
BUR to OAK · Oaklandthin sample	213	89.1%	49 min	0.94%	A+
BUR to SJC · San Josethin sample	163	84.7%	53 min	0.00%	B+
BUR to DEN · Denverthin sample	160	91.9%	48 min	0.00%	A+
BUR to SEA · Seattlethin sample	136	88.9%	36 min	0.74%	A+
BUR to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	116	94.0%	210 min	0.00%	A+
BUR to STS · Santa Rosathin sample	70	89.9%	36 min	0.00%	A+
BUR to PDX · Portlandthin sample	68	98.5%	170 min	1.47%	A
BUR to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	60	81.0%	38 min	3.33%	B−
BUR to RNO · Renothin sample	37	81.1%	40 min	0.00%	B+
BUR to EUG · Eugenethin sample	30	96.7%	28 min	0.00%	A+
BUR to BOI · Boisethin sample	30	93.3%	71 min	0.00%	A+
BUR to ATL · Atlantathin sample	30	89.3%	32 min	6.67%	A−
BUR to BNA · Nashvillethin sample	30	86.7%	39 min	0.00%	A+
BUR to PSC · Pascothin sample	30	86.7%	33 min	0.00%	A+
BUR to RDM · Redmondthin sample	30	93.3%	104 min	0.00%	A+

Delay causes

What held BUR up in April

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 23,000 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
39%
National Airspace System
38%
Carrier
20%
Extreme weather
2%
Security
0%

39% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 23,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 24 to one. The split is drawn from 22,894 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.69%, below the national 0.90% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 6.4% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

What to do with this

Flying from BUR in April

For a April trip through BUR: expect 82.2% on time and 0.69% cancelled, going by April 2026. The 5am–8am window was the strongest part of the day.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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