Best time to fly out of Liberal Mid-America (LBL)
Liberal Mid-America did not fly enough departures in this window to split the day into time bands. Not enough flights to say. A percentage needs at least 100 flights behind it before it is worth printing; anything thinner is noise wearing a decimal point. These are historical odds, not forecasts. The records say what happened on this schedule over three years; they know nothing about tomorrow’s thunderstorm.
Data through June 2026 · Bureau of Transportation Statistics
On-time rate by hour and day
On this page, “on time” means a departure that pushed back less than 15 minutes behind its scheduled time — the Bureau of Transportation Statistics definition, and the one airlines are held to.
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Not enough flights to say — fewer than 100 in this window.
The year at LBL
August was the hard month at LBL: 75% of departures left on time, across 159 flights. November was the easy one at 89.9%. Each month pools three years of that month, so a single bad week does not decide it.
| Month | Share departures that left on time | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| January | 87.6% | 118 |
| February | 87.5% | 126 |
| March | 86.8% | 159 |
| April | 82.1% | 154 |
| May | 78.2% | 160 |
| June | 77.6% | 154 |
| July | 77.7% | 159 |
| August | 75% | 159 |
| September | 84.2% | 154 |
| October | 88.1% | 160 |
| November | 89.9% | 153 |
| December | 87.8% | 159 |
Airlines at LBL
Every airline with at least 100 departures from LBL, busiest first. These are that airline’s departures from this airport only — its record across the country sits on its own page.
| Airline | Left on time | Typical delay | Cancelled | Departures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 83.4% | 118 min | 2.8% | 1,815 |
What delays out of LBL were put down to
Airlines file a reason with every arrival running 15 minutes late or more. Across 335 flights that departed LBL and ran 15 minutes late or more, the delay minutes break down with 38.2% put down to airline operations and 35.7% to late-arriving aircraft.
- Late-arriving aircraft 35.7%
- Airline operations 38.2%
- Air traffic & airport volume 19.2%
- Severe weather 6.9%
- Security 0%
Late-arriving aircraft is the knock-on category: the plane came in late, so it went out late again. It is why a 7am problem in Newark is still a problem in Denver at dinnertime, and why it is usually the biggest slice on the bar.
If you are connecting through LBL
Of 1,815 scheduled arrivals into LBL, 79.2% reached the gate less than 15 minutes behind schedule. Of the 317 arrivals that ran late, 55.8% were no more than 45 minutes behind — which is the difference between a tight connection and a new boarding pass.
Work out a specific layover — pick the airport and the minutes you have, and the tool reads the same arrival records back as a share.
Busiest routes out of LBL
Ranked by flights, with the share that arrived on time at the far end. Where a route carries enough flights for a page of its own the chip goes there; otherwise it goes to the destination airport.
LBL in one number
Liberal Mid-America (LBL)
Rank 302 of 363 US airports by departures. Steadiest stretch of the day: —. Hardest month: August.
Questions about LBL
- What is the worst month to fly out of LBL?
- August: 75% of the departures that flew left on time, with 159 scheduled. November was the other end of the year at 89.9%. Each figure pools three years of that calendar month.
- How often are flights cancelled at LBL?
- 2.8% of scheduled departures were cancelled over July 2023 through June 2026. Cancellations are counted against everything scheduled, not against everything that flew — a rate that looks small still adds up to real people in a rebooking line.