OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Houston to Charleston

925 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on IAH–CHS arrive on time 27% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate27%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay125 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled3.3%of scheduled flights

based on 30 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • United Airlines
    On-time27%
    Median30 min
    p90125 min
    Cancel3.3%
    Flights30

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline23%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)6%
  • Late aircraft71%
  • 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 IAH → CHS

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 — 75% on time.

  • Middays75% on time · p90 60 min · 607 flights
  • Evenings60% on time · p90 85 min · 290 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 64% to 78% on time.

  • Saturdays78% on time · p90 50 min · 112 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays73% on time · p90 40 min · 133 flights · limited
  • Thursdays73% on time · p90 60 min · 133 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays70% on time · p90 50 min · 124 flights · limited
  • Sundays68% on time · p90 75 min · 136 flights · limited
  • Fridays66% on time · p90 100 min · 122 flights · limited
  • Mondays64% on time · p90 70 min · 137 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.