Las Vegas (LAS) departure delays
13,704 departures · 122 routes · February 2025 – July 2026
64.02%
Left on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.77%
Cancelled
Share of departures
49 min
When late, late by
Average delayed departure
#118
Rank
Among graded US airports
What the record says about LAS
LAS is one of the later-running airports in the record. When an airport is this congested the cause is usually structural — runway capacity, airspace, or a hub airline scheduling more departures into a peak than the field can clear — and no airline flying from it escapes entirely.
The airlines flying from here are not equally affected. Delta Air Lines left on time 21.7 points more often than Southwest Airlines from the same airport — which is the clearest evidence available that a delayed departure is not purely the airport's fault.
With 40 routes in the record, LAS is a hub, and hubs carry a particular risk: a delay early in the day propagates through every aircraft that was due to fly on afterwards. Morning departures from a hub are reliably better than evening ones.
Which airlines run best out of LAS
| Airline | Departures | On time |
|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 1,212 | 86.1% |
| Allegiant Air | 596 | 84.6% |
| Virgin Atlantic | 651 | 83.1% |
| British Airways | 799 | 78.1% |
| Alaska Airlines | 579 | 77.3% |
| JetBlue Airways | 302 | 77.3% |
| American Airlines | 1,157 | 76% |
| United Airlines | 1,150 | 73.6% |
| Frontier Airlines | 1,243 | 72.1% |
| Southwest Airlines | 7,297 | 64.4% |