OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Houston to Columbus

1,000 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on HOU–CMH arrive on time 72% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate72%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.0%of scheduled flights

based on 246 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights246

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline40%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)17%
  • Late aircraft38%
  • 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 HOU → CMH

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

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 59% to 80% on time.

  • Middays80% on time · p90 20 min · 192 flights · limited
  • Evenings72% on time · p90 65 min · 274 flights
  • Afternoons71% on time · p90 40 min · 553 flights
  • Overnights59% on time · p90 75 min · 54 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 65% to 77% on time.

  • Mondays77% on time · p90 45 min · 157 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 45 min · 157 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays75% on time · p90 45 min · 157 flights · limited
  • Saturdays75% on time · p90 35 min · 120 flights · limited
  • Fridays71% on time · p90 40 min · 157 flights · limited
  • Thursdays69% on time · p90 40 min · 154 flights · limited
  • Sundays65% on time · p90 60 min · 172 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.