Airport month record

LAXFEB

Los Angeles International in February 2026

Departures: 13,687
Month: February 2026
National, same month: 80.2%
Carriers: 9

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

LAX in February lands a B, level with the national rate of 80.2%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 13,687 flights, of which United Airlines flew 2,010 at 85.8% on time.

United Airlines is the most reliable of the seven carriers covered here at 85.8% on time across 2,010 flights.

On time

80.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 13,453 completed departures

Avg delay

69 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.42%

Nationally in February: 2.25%

Whole year

80.4%

LAX across all twelve months

These figures cover 13,687 departures from Los Angeles International in February 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

February next to LAX's other months

Against LAX's own year, February ran level with the twelve-month rate of 80.4%, which makes it number six of twelve months, best first. Cancellations are where February stands out: 1.42% of scheduled departures were called off, 1.5 times the airport's rate across the year. Either side of it, January ran 81.2% on time and March 77.7%, so this month sits in line with its neighbours.

LAX month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
July 2025	17,104	77.5%	78 min	1.20%	B
August 2025	16,493	82.5%	73 min	0.53%	B+
September 2025	15,262	85.8%	66 min	0.28%	A+
October 2025	16,122	83.5%	70 min	0.31%	B+
November 2025	15,422	79.7%	67 min	1.78%	B
December 2025	16,050	77.7%	71 min	0.88%	B+
January 2026	14,815	81.2%	76 min	2.17%	B
February 2026 (this page)	13,687	80.9%	69 min	1.42%	B
March 2026	16,088	77.7%	65 min	1.29%	B
April 2026	15,732	81.5%	62 min	0.44%	B+
May 2026	16,317	80.0%	64 min	0.54%	B+
June 2026	16,664	77.0%	69 min	0.61%	B+

Departure window

The best time of day to leave LAX in February

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 13 points, against 9 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am1,593 flights89.6%
8am–11am3,551 flights80.2%
11am–2pm2,324 flights76.3%
2pm–5pm2,046 flights78.4%
5pm–8pm1,877 flights82.1%
8pm–5am2,296 flights81.9%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 76.3% on time against 89.6% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 3,551 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 84.3% on time and Thursday the weakest at 75.6%. 9 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at LAX in February

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 85.8% of the time; JetBlue Airways manages 76.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 516 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at LAX in February 2026
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines	3,294	82.5%	77 min	0.76%	B+
Delta Air Lines	2,633	80.8%	77 min	1.60%	B
American Airlines	2,144	77.6%	79 min	1.96%	B
United Airlines	2,010	85.8%	59 min	1.19%	A
Southwest Airlines	1,846	78.6%	46 min	0.49%	B+
Alaska Airlines	697	83.2%	55 min	0.86%	B+
JetBlue Airways	516	76.9%	66 min	6.59%	B−
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	332	81.0%	77 min	0.30%	B+
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	215	66.8%	64 min	5.58%	C−

JetBlue Airways cancels 6.6% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of LAX in February

Routes from LAX in February 2026
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
LAX to SFO · San Francisco	742	70.2%	65 min	0.81%	C+
LAX to JFK · New York	727	74.4%	118 min	8.39%	C−
LAX to LAS · Las Vegas	657	79.6%	62 min	0.61%	B+
LAX to PHX · Phoenix	599	80.6%	75 min	0.17%	B+
LAX to SEA · Seattle	555	87.2%	68 min	0.36%	A+
LAX to DEN · Denver	550	82.6%	62 min	0.55%	B+
LAX to ORD · Chicago	453	83.4%	66 min	0.00%	B+
LAX to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worth	444	74.5%	61 min	0.90%	C+
LAX to SMF · Sacramento	403	84.4%	50 min	0.00%	B+
LAX to IAH · Houston	398	86.4%	56 min	0.25%	A+
LAX to SLC · Salt Lake City	374	90.1%	104 min	0.27%	A+
LAX to HNL · Honoluluthin sample	360	81.0%	62 min	0.28%	B+
LAX to BOS · Bostonthin sample	344	77.9%	79 min	6.69%	B−
LAX to ATL · Atlantathin sample	324	77.1%	50 min	0.31%	B+
LAX to SJC · San Josethin sample	314	86.9%	48 min	0.00%	A+
LAX to PDX · Portlandthin sample	309	83.0%	93 min	0.97%	B+
LAX to EWR · Newarkthin sample	302	80.4%	70 min	8.28%	B−
LAX to AUS · Austinthin sample	280	80.8%	47 min	1.43%	B
LAX to MCO · Orlandothin sample	269	84.0%	66 min	0.00%	B+
LAX to MIA · Miamithin sample	236	81.2%	51 min	0.42%	B+
LAX to RNO · Renothin sample	199	86.2%	67 min	1.51%	A
LAX to TUS · Tucsonthin sample	196	76.5%	108 min	0.00%	B+
LAX to SAN · San Diegothin sample	185	88.1%	61 min	0.00%	A+
LAX to FLL · Fort Lauderdalethin sample	183	71.4%	60 min	3.83%	C−
LAX to DTW · Detroitthin sample	179	77.3%	61 min	1.68%	B

Delay causes

What held LAX up in February

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 44% of the 176,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
44%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
National Airspace System
19%
Extreme weather
3%
Security
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 78,000 of the 176,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 176,375 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.42% against a national 2.25%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.

6.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 6.5%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

What to do with this

Flying from LAX in February

For a February trip through LAX: expect 80.9% on time and 1.42% cancelled, going by February 2026. The 5am–8am window was the strongest part of the day.

Los Angeles International (LAX), the whole year
LAX in July77.5%
LAX in August82.5%
LAX in September85.8%
LAX in October83.5%
LAX in November79.7%
LAX in December77.7%
LAX in January81.2%
LAX in March77.7%
LAX in April81.5%
LAX in May80.0%
LAX in June77.0%

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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