OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Baltimore to Houston

1,235 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on BWI–IAH arrive on time 80% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate80%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.3%of scheduled flights

based on 1,119 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • United Airlines
    On-time81%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel1.2%
    Flights694
  • Spirit Airlines
    On-time79%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights425

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline36%
  • Weather10%
  • Air traffic (NAS)31%
  • Late aircraft23%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly BWI → IAH

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 — 87% on time.

  • Mornings87% on time · p90 15 min · 1,433 flights
  • Middays79% on time · p90 35 min · 571 flights
  • Afternoons74% on time · p90 50 min · 926 flights
  • Overnights67% on time · p90 80 min · 151 flights · limited
  • Evenings64% on time · p90 70 min · 277 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 76% to 83% on time.

  • Wednesdays83% on time · p90 25 min · 462 flights
  • Tuesdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 472 flights
  • Saturdays80% on time · p90 35 min · 416 flights
  • Sundays79% on time · p90 45 min · 481 flights
  • Fridays79% on time · p90 35 min · 495 flights
  • Thursdays78% on time · p90 45 min · 510 flights
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 40 min · 522 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.