Route reliability record
LAS→BUR
Las Vegas to Burbank
- Flights
- 4,075
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 223 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 4,075 LAS to BUR flights, of which Spirit Airlines flew 668 at 88.4% on time.
Best time to fly LAS to BUR: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 92.1% of the time and Wednesday flights 85.1%, against 78.9% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
78.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 4,008 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.40%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Spirit
88.4% on time across 668 flights
These figures cover 4,075 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 8 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on LAS to BUR
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Spirit Airlines arrives on time 88.4% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 76.9%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 3,201 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Airlines | 668 | 88.4% | 75 min | 2.69% | A |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 206 | 80.7% | 102 min | 1.94% | B |
| Southwest Airlines | 3,201 | 76.9% | 53 min | 1.09% | B |
Spirit leads Southwest by 12 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Las Vegas to Burbank
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 4 of the top 5 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. LAS → SNALas Vegas to Santa Ana | Spirit Airlines | 87.5% | 89.1% | 1.82% | 8pm–5am, Sat | — |
| 2. LAS → SNALas Vegas to Santa Ana | SkyWest Airlines | 86.5% | 87.0% | 0.55% | 2pm–5pm, Wed | OO 4078 08:00 |
| 3. LAS → BURLas Vegas to Burbank | Spirit Airlines | 86.0% | 88.4% | 2.69% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 4. LAS → LAXLas Vegas to Los Angeles | Spirit Airlines | 85.8% | 86.9% | 1.30% | 11am–2pm, Wed | — |
| 5. LAS → LAXLas Vegas to Los Angeles | United Airlines | 85.1% | 85.6% | 0.57% | 5am–8am, Wed | UA 2039 06:00 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 28 points, against 12 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am613 flights92.1%
- 8am–11am754 flights88.1%
- 11am–2pm733 flights80.3%
- 2pm–5pm875 flights73.2%
- 5pm–8pm676 flights72.4%
- 8pm–5am424 flights64.0%
Scale runs 55% to 100%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 64.0% on time, against 92.1% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 875 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter LAS to BUR by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On LAS to BUR, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 92.1% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 64.0%, a wide gap of 28.1 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am92.1%
- 8–11am88.1%
- 11am–2pm80.3%
- 2–5pm73.2%
- 5–8pm72.4%
- 8pm–5am64.0%
best all US flightsScale 55% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 14 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
Delays peak in October, when the on-time rate falls to 72.7%. March is the strongest month at 86.7%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 14 points. March was the busiest month here, with 377 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.1% on time and Friday the weakest at 73.6%, a spread of 12 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 48,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 48,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 16 to one. The split is drawn from 48,194 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 92.1% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.40% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.25%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
6.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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.
At 223 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 80.4% on time across 4,116 flights, within 2 points of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 4,075 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. March runs 86.7% on time and October 72.7%, a swing of 14 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of October before you think about anything else. 4,008 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
LAS to BUR questions
How often is LAS to BUR delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 21.1% of the 4,075 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on LAS to BUR?
Spirit Airlines leads at 88.4% on time across 668 flights. Southwest Airlines is at the other end on 76.9%, a gap of 12 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on LAS to BUR?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 92.1% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 64.0%, 28 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are October delays on LAS to BUR?
October is the weakest month at 72.7% on time, compared with 86.7% in March. Across the year that is 14 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- BUR to LAS — the return legseparate record
- Harry Reid International (LAS) delay statistics
- Hollywood Burbank (BUR) delay statistics
- Spirit Airlines on LAS to BUR88.4%
- Frontier Airlines on LAS to BUR80.7%
- Southwest Airlines on LAS to BUR76.9%
- LAS to LAX, a related route77.9%
- PHX to BUR, a related route79.8%
- LAS to DEN, a related route76.5%
- Spirit Airlines on-time record88.4%
- Frontier Airlines on-time record80.7%
- Southwest Airlines on-time record76.9%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
Direction matters. LAS to BUR and BUR to LAS are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.