OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Colorado Springs to Houston

809 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on COS–IAH arrive on time 86% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate86%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.0%of scheduled flights

based on 219 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time86%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights219

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline69%
  • Weather21%
  • Air traffic (NAS)10%
  • Late aircraft0%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline32%
  • Weather68%
  • Air traffic (NAS)0%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 19 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly COS → IAH

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 83% on time.

  • Mornings83% on time · p90 50 min · 786 flights
  • Middays76% on time · p90 70 min · 248 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 78% to 85% on time.

  • Saturdays85% on time · p90 25 min · 134 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays84% on time · p90 55 min · 152 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays82% on time · p90 75 min · 153 flights · limited
  • Mondays82% on time · p90 40 min · 152 flights · limited
  • Sundays81% on time · p90 45 min · 135 flights · limited
  • Fridays79% on time · p90 65 min · 154 flights · limited
  • Thursdays78% on time · p90 65 min · 155 flights · limited

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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.