OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Houston to Wichita

542 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on IAH–ICT arrive on time 77% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate77%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay55 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.0%of scheduled flights

based on 399 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time77%
    Medianon time
    p9060 min
    Cancel2.2%
    Flights368
  • United Airlines
    On-time71%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights31

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline28%
  • Weather12%
  • Air traffic (NAS)15%
  • Late aircraft45%
  • 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 → ICT

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 73% to 77% on time.

  • Middays77% on time · p90 60 min · 549 flights
  • Afternoons77% on time · p90 65 min · 230 flights
  • Mornings74% on time · p90 70 min · 382 flights
  • Overnights73% on time · p90 50 min · 451 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 71% to 83% on time.

  • Tuesdays83% on time · p90 35 min · 226 flights
  • Saturdays76% on time · p90 55 min · 225 flights
  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 45 min · 230 flights
  • Mondays75% on time · p90 70 min · 240 flights
  • Sundays72% on time · p90 85 min · 230 flights
  • Fridays71% on time · p90 55 min · 230 flights
  • Thursdays71% on time · p90 60 min · 235 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.