Airport month record

LAXNOV

Los Angeles International in November 2025

Departures: 15,422
Month: November 2025
National, same month: 79.4%
Carriers: 10

Historical statistics for November 2025, not live status or a forecast for this year’s November. For today’s conditions at LAX, see live FAA status.

LAX in November lands a B, level with the national rate of 79.4%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 15,422 flights, of which Alaska Airlines flew 605 at 88.7% on time.

Alaska Airlines is the most reliable of the nine carriers covered here at 88.7% on time across 605 flights.

On time

79.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 15,120 completed departures

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.78%

Nationally in November: 2.49%

Whole year

80.4%

LAX across all twelve months

These figures cover 15,422 departures from Los Angeles International in November 2025. 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

November next to LAX's other months

Against LAX's own year, November ran level with the twelve-month rate of 80.4%, which makes it number eight of twelve months, best first. Cancellations are where November stands out: 1.78% of scheduled departures were called off, 1.9 times the airport's rate across the year. Either side of it, October ran 83.5% on time and December 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 (this page)	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	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 November

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 11 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am1,919 flights88.5%
8am–11am3,868 flights80.4%
11am–2pm2,589 flights77.1%
2pm–5pm2,193 flights78.1%
5pm–8pm2,112 flights77.6%
8pm–5am2,741 flights77.7%

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 77.1% on time against 88.5% 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 3,868 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 87.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 71.5%. 16 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at LAX in November

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Alaska Airlines arrives on time 88.7% of the time; Frontier Airlines manages 71.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 488 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at LAX in November 2025
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlines	3,172	86.0%	65 min	3.56%	A−
Delta Air Lines	2,994	81.7%	65 min	1.24%	B
American Airlines	2,425	72.4%	80 min	1.15%	C
United Airlines	2,410	80.5%	70 min	0.75%	B+
Southwest Airlines	2,113	76.1%	50 min	1.70%	B
JetBlue Airways	663	75.5%	66 min	2.56%	B
Alaska Airlines	605	88.7%	53 min	0.33%	A+
Frontier Airlines	488	71.5%	84 min	3.07%	C−
Spirit Airlines	392	73.0%	73 min	1.79%	C
Hawaiian Airlinesthin sample	147	84.9%	84 min	0.68%	B+

SkyWest Airlines cancels 3.6% 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 November

Routes from LAX in November 2025
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
LAX to SFO · San Francisco	903	63.8%	61 min	2.55%	D
LAX to JFK · New York	860	79.7%	79 min	1.86%	B
LAX to LAS · Las Vegas	705	74.4%	70 min	2.98%	C
LAX to PHX · Phoenix	664	75.6%	71 min	4.22%	B−
LAX to DEN · Denver	648	86.1%	71 min	2.31%	A
LAX to SEA · Seattle	604	90.6%	86 min	1.16%	A
LAX to ORD · Chicago	584	71.3%	86 min	3.77%	C−
LAX to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worth	531	65.9%	74 min	3.20%	C−
LAX to EWR · Newark	468	76.6%	84 min	1.50%	B
LAX to SMF · Sacramento	455	85.8%	53 min	2.20%	A
LAX to IAH · Houston	446	77.4%	61 min	0.45%	B+
LAX to ATL · Atlanta	427	75.2%	62 min	1.87%	B
LAX to HNL · Honolulu	407	86.6%	75 min	0.98%	A+
LAX to BOS · Boston	376	80.0%	87 min	1.33%	B
LAX to PDX · Portlandthin sample	364	86.7%	69 min	0.55%	A+
LAX to AUS · Austinthin sample	350	72.5%	68 min	0.86%	C+
LAX to SJC · San Josethin sample	337	90.0%	45 min	1.78%	A
LAX to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	321	91.2%	90 min	0.31%	A+
LAX to MIA · Miamithin sample	281	71.8%	55 min	0.36%	C+
LAX to MCO · Orlandothin sample	269	78.1%	83 min	0.00%	B+
LAX to TUS · Tucsonthin sample	223	84.2%	64 min	3.59%	B−
LAX to FLL · Fort Lauderdalethin sample	201	68.0%	62 min	0.50%	C+
LAX to IAD · Washingtonthin sample	198	83.8%	47 min	0.00%	B+
LAX to SAN · San Diegothin sample	193	86.9%	72 min	8.81%	A−
LAX to CLT · Charlottethin sample	192	76.4%	64 min	0.52%	B+

Delay causes

What held LAX up in November

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 207,000 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
37%
Late-arriving aircraft
35%
National Airspace System
26%
Extreme weather
2%
Security
0%

35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 207,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 22 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 207,157 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 1.78% against a national 2.49%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.18%.

6.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 7.8%. 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

What to do with this

Flying from LAX in November

For a November trip through LAX: expect 79.7% on time and 1.78% cancelled, going by November 2025. 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 December77.7%
LAX in January81.2%
LAX in February80.9%
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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