OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Houston to Little Rock

374 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on IAH–LIT arrive on time 76% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate76%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay65 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.9%of scheduled flights

based on 436 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9065 min
    Cancel0.9%
    Flights436

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline27%
  • Weather17%
  • Air traffic (NAS)20%
  • Late aircraft36%
  • 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 → LIT

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 72% to 78% on time.

  • Afternoons78% on time · p90 55 min · 678 flights
  • Evenings74% on time · p90 65 min · 340 flights
  • Middays74% on time · p90 60 min · 116 flights · limited
  • Overnights72% on time · p90 45 min · 93 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 69% to 85% on time.

  • Tuesdays85% on time · p90 25 min · 176 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays83% on time · p90 65 min · 169 flights · limited
  • Thursdays77% on time · p90 50 min · 168 flights · limited
  • Saturdays75% on time · p90 45 min · 183 flights · limited
  • Mondays75% on time · p90 75 min · 173 flights · limited
  • Sundays72% on time · p90 70 min · 186 flights · limited
  • Fridays69% on time · p90 65 min · 189 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.