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When is San Diego security busiest? 5 am, every morning.

Calmest around 5 pm. Choose any hour on the board.

People screened per hour at SAN checkpoints, by weekday and hour; choose a cell to read it
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Monday, 5 am

3,840

people screened, 8-week average.

Which checkpoint is busiest? Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 West, by 5 am.

Every checkpoint peaks before noon.

Security counts,

  • Terminal 1

    5 am

    1,220 screened

  • Terminal 2 West

    5 am

    1,740 screened

  • Terminal 2 East

    7 am

    790 screened

Which departures leave on time? Leave in the morning.

6 am: 93% left on time. 7 pm: 58%.

Flight records,

Share of SAN departures leaving less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour
DepartsBarLeft on time
6 am93%
7 am88%
8 am85%
9 am79%
10 am77%
11 am72%
12 pm67%
1 pm61%
2 pm63%
3 pm64%
4 pm60%
5 pm63%
6 pm60%
7 pm58%
8 pm60%
9 pm64%
10 pm78%

Which airline runs on time here? Delta and United lead.

Southwest flies 36% of SAN departures and landed on time 70% of the time.

Flight records,

  1. Delta 11,454 flights, 1.1% cancelled 85%
  2. United 11,472 flights, 0.8% cancelled 79%
  3. American 9,387 flights, 1.6% cancelled 79%
  4. Alaska 32,210 flights, 2.1% cancelled 73%
  5. Southwest 39,067 flights, 0.9% cancelled 70%

Not ranked, under ten flights a day: Allegiant 100% of 1, Spirit 85% of 118, JetBlue 76% of 1,643, Frontier 70% of 2,105, Hawaiian 64% of 318.

Where do SAN flights land late? San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix.

Lowest on-time rates of the 8 busiest.

Flight records,

ToFlightsOn time
SFO San Francisco7,38358%
PHX Phoenix6,59171%
LAS Las Vegas6,45170%
DEN Denver6,13477%
SMF Sacramento5,64873%
SJC San Jose5,59174%
SEA Seattle4,64680%
ORD Chicago3,94476%