Flights Las Vegas → Santa Maria
LAS → SMX
Route overview
The flight route from Las Vegas to Santa Maria has a high on-time performance rate of 88%, with an average arrival time that is actually one minute and forty-two seconds early. Over the course of a year, this route sees approximately twenty-six flights, serving the relatively low traffic destination airport which handles around eighty thousand two hundred and forty passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Las Vegas (LAS) → Santa Maria (SMX) route is operated by Allegiant Air. Across 35 flights monitored in recent months, 83% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 6 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 20.8/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Santa Maria the average ATFM delay is 0.9 minutes (main cause: airspace/NAS (BTS)). Departing from Las Vegas the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Santa Maria: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Las Vegas (LAS) to Santa Maria (SMX) heads west for about 498 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 3m.
Departures from Las Vegas on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 54% of LAS-SMX flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Las Vegas the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Santa Maria it is 0.9 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 35 tracked LAS-SMX flights, 83% left on time with an average delay of 6 min and a 0.0% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allegiant Air (G4) | 78% | 11 min | 2.3% |
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Frequently asked questions about LAS-SMX
On the Las Vegas (LAS) -> Santa Maria (SMX) route, on-time performance is 83% with an average delay of 6 minutes, based on 35 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Las Vegas-Santa Maria is 0.00% across 35 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Allegiant Air.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
