OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Houston to Pensacola

488 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate72%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.0%of scheduled flights

based on 300 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
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights300

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline25%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)6%
  • Late aircraft65%
  • 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 HOU → PNS

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

Best time of day

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

  • Middays83% on time · p90 20 min · 319 flights
  • Afternoons76% on time · p90 30 min · 505 flights
  • Overnights65% on time · p90 55 min · 167 flights · limited
  • Evenings64% on time · p90 60 min · 137 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 69% to 83% on time.

  • Saturdays83% on time · p90 25 min · 159 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 45 min · 149 flights · limited
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 30 min · 154 flights · limited
  • Fridays74% on time · p90 35 min · 153 flights · limited
  • Sundays74% on time · p90 35 min · 223 flights
  • Wednesdays73% on time · p90 40 min · 148 flights · limited
  • Thursdays69% on time · p90 35 min · 153 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.