BUR to DSM flight delays
Burbank, CA (BUR) Des Moines, IA (DSM) · 1,436 miles
9 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
This route flew fewer than 50 times in the period, which is too few for an on-time rate to mean anything. The figures below are shown as recorded, but the route is not graded.
44.44%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
66 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
38 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Flights from Burbank to Des Moines arrive late more often than they arrive on time. At this rate lateness is the normal outcome, not the exception, and the schedule is better read as an aspiration than a plan.
This route does worse than its own airport. BUR as a whole runs 32.1 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.
Every airline on BUR to DSM
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allegiant Air | 9 | 44.44% | 0% | 66 min | — |
The return leg
DSM to BUR Des Moines back to Burbank 44.44% on time —Other routes from Burbank
Common questions
Are flights from Burbank to Des Moines usually delayed?
44.44% of flights on the BUR to DSM route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 6 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
How often are BUR to DSM flights cancelled?
0% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 1 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When BUR to DSM flights are late, how late are they?
About 66 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on BUR to DSM during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →