OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Houston to Omaha

781 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on IAH–OMA arrive on time 68% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate68%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay65 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.5%of scheduled flights

based on 598 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlinesbest
    On-time90%
    Medianon time
    p9010 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights31
  • United Airlines
    On-time66%
    Medianon time
    p9065 min
    Cancel1.6%
    Flights567

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline40%
  • Weather9%
  • Air traffic (NAS)12%
  • Late aircraft39%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly IAH → OMA

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 58% to 84% on time.

  • Middays84% on time · p90 30 min · 518 flights
  • Afternoons79% on time · p90 30 min · 57 flights · limited
  • Overnights65% on time · p90 70 min · 803 flights
  • Evenings58% on time · p90 90 min · 391 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 62% to 74% on time.

  • Tuesdays74% on time · p90 65 min · 252 flights
  • Mondays72% on time · p90 65 min · 253 flights
  • Wednesdays72% on time · p90 70 min · 252 flights
  • Thursdays71% on time · p90 60 min · 251 flights
  • Saturdays68% on time · p90 60 min · 245 flights
  • Fridays65% on time · p90 70 min · 264 flights
  • Sundays62% on time · p90 70 min · 254 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.