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Flights from Santa Barbara (SBA)

Airlines flew 8,934 departures out of Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (SBA) carrying 748,575 passengers over the 12 months through April 2026. Here's what actually flew — the busiest routes, the carriers, and the aircraft — from US DOT T-100 filings.

What flies from Santa Barbara

US DOT T-100 · filed data

What airlines actually flew out of Santa Barbara — departures, seats, and passengers filed with the US DOT (T-100) over the trailing 12 months, not a schedule.

Departures

8,934

April 2026

Seats flown

1,066,946

Passengers

748,575

Load factor

70.2%

passengers ÷ seats

Busiest routes from Santa Barbara

Where flights from Santa Barbara go most, by departures over the trailing 12 months.

  • SBASFO

    1,563 departures · 123,408 passengers

    66.4%

    Load

  • SBAPHX

    1,414 departures · 105,156 passengers

    71.2%

    Load

  • SBADEN

    1,107 departures · 132,800 passengers

    75.5%

    Load

  • SBASLC

    1,011 departures · 55,864 passengers

    71.0%

    Load

  • SBALAS

    866 departures · 88,966 passengers

    66.6%

    Load

  • SBALAX

    678 departures · 28,417 passengers

    59.4%

    Load

  • SBASEA

    535 departures · 53,391 passengers

    75.6%

    Load

  • SBASMF

    362 departures · 33,784 passengers

    60.9%

    Load

  • SBAPDX

    360 departures · 22,413 passengers

    82.1%

    Load

  • SBADFW

    353 departures · 49,719 passengers

    86.7%

    Load

  • SBAOAK

    291 departures · 22,889 passengers

    51.5%

    Load

  • SBAATL

    254 departures · 26,988 passengers

    81.9%

    Load

  • SBAORD

    24 departures · 2,862 passengers

    71.8%

    Load

  • SBASAN

    20 departures · 647 passengers

    46.6%

    Load

  • SBASBA

    11 departures · 0 passengers

    0.0%

    Load

Airlines at Santa Barbara

Ranked by seats flown — the capacity each carrier actually operated out of Santa Barbara.

Aircraft flown from Santa Barbara

Aircraft types by share of departures — what actually operated, not what's based here.

Monthly departures from Santa Barbara

Monthly departures from Santa Barbara, trailing 12 months through April 2026. Bars scale to the busiest month.

  • May 2025

    770 departures · 65,584 passengers

    75.3%

    Load

  • June 2025

    772 departures · 69,593 passengers

    76.4%

    Load

  • July 2025

    768 departures · 67,254 passengers

    71.9%

    Load

  • August 2025

    750 departures · 69,837 passengers

    76.2%

    Load

  • September 2025

    735 departures · 66,467 passengers

    70.5%

    Load

  • October 2025

    803 departures · 69,068 passengers

    70.6%

    Load

  • November 2025

    742 departures · 60,124 passengers

    69.6%

    Load

  • December 2025

    721 departures · 59,460 passengers

    69.6%

    Load

  • January 2026

    681 departures · 46,128 passengers

    57.7%

    Load

  • February 2026

    656 departures · 48,841 passengers

    64.0%

    Load

  • March 2026

    768 departures · 63,758 passengers

    68.4%

    Load

  • April 2026

    768 departures · 62,461 passengers

    69.2%

    Load

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment. Data through April 2026. The DOT publishes roughly three months in arrears.