OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Houston to Raleigh-durham

1,050 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on HOU–RDU arrive on time 70% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate70%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.0%of scheduled flights

based on 253 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time70%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights253

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline32%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)20%
  • Late aircraft43%
  • 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 → RDU

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 — 87% on time.

  • Middays87% on time · p90 15 min · 201 flights
  • Afternoons66% on time · p90 50 min · 580 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 68% to 76% on time.

  • Saturdays76% on time · p90 30 min · 118 flights · limited
  • Mondays75% on time · p90 45 min · 112 flights · limited
  • Sundays71% on time · p90 40 min · 147 flights · limited
  • Fridays70% on time · p90 40 min · 113 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays69% on time · p90 35 min · 99 flights · limited
  • Thursdays68% on time · p90 50 min · 113 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays68% on time · p90 55 min · 99 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.