OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Austin to St. Louis

722 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on AUS–STL arrive on time 80% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate80%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay30 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.4%of scheduled flights

based on 970 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel0.4%
    Flights970

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline25%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)8%
  • Late aircraft63%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly AUS → STL

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 95% on time.

  • Mornings95% on time · p90 on time · 1,038 flights
  • Middays80% on time · p90 30 min · 722 flights
  • Overnights76% on time · p90 35 min · 85 flights · limited
  • Afternoons73% on time · p90 35 min · 760 flights
  • Evenings69% on time · p90 55 min · 369 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 78% to 86% on time.

  • Tuesdays86% on time · p90 15 min · 427 flights
  • Saturdays86% on time · p90 20 min · 277 flights
  • Mondays84% on time · p90 20 min · 450 flights
  • Wednesdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 426 flights
  • Thursdays80% on time · p90 25 min · 451 flights
  • Sundays79% on time · p90 35 min · 494 flights
  • Fridays78% on time · p90 35 min · 449 flights
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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.