Flights Sacramento → Burbank
SMF → BUR
Route overview
The flight route from Sacramento to Burbank has an on-time performance rate of 84%, with flights typically experiencing a mean delay of just six minutes. With over 628 total flights annually, the destination airport in Burbank, which opened in 1942, serves more than five million passengers each year.
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 Sacramento (SMF) → Burbank (BUR) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 852 flights monitored in recent months, 86% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 6 minutes. The cancellation rate is 2.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 22.5/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Burbank the average ATFM delay is 2.4 minutes (main cause: airspace/NAS (BTS)). Departing from Sacramento the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Burbank: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Sacramento (SMF) to Burbank (BUR) heads south-east for about 577 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 8m.
Departures from Sacramento on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 50% of SMF-BUR flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Sacramento the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Burbank it is 2.4 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)).
Across 852 tracked SMF-BUR flights, 86% left on time with an average delay of 6 min and a 2.0% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about SMF-BUR
On the Sacramento (SMF) -> Burbank (BUR) route, on-time performance is 86% with an average delay of 6 minutes, based on 852 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Sacramento-Burbank is 2.00% across 852 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Southwest Airlines.
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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.
