OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Houston to Tulsa

453 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on HOU–TUL arrive on time 81% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate81%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay30 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.0%of scheduled flights

based on 723 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time81%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel1.0%
    Flights723

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline30%
  • Weather6%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • Late aircraft55%
  • Security1%

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 → TUL

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 70% to 91% on time.

  • Mornings91% on time · p90 10 min · 820 flights
  • Middays88% on time · p90 10 min · 114 flights · limited
  • Afternoons74% on time · p90 45 min · 125 flights · limited
  • Evenings72% on time · p90 35 min · 97 flights · limited
  • Overnights70% on time · p90 55 min · 948 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 75% to 85% on time.

  • Wednesdays85% on time · p90 15 min · 264 flights
  • Tuesdays83% on time · p90 35 min · 267 flights
  • Saturdays82% on time · p90 25 min · 290 flights
  • Mondays80% on time · p90 30 min · 288 flights
  • Fridays80% on time · p90 35 min · 293 flights
  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 45 min · 288 flights
  • Sundays75% on time · p90 45 min · 414 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.