OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Ontario to Houston

1,334 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on ONT–IAH arrive on time 86% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate86%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay20 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.5%of scheduled flights

based on 367 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Not enough comparable data to name a most-on-time carrier — low-data carriers aren't ranked.

  • United Airlines
    On-time87%
    Medianon time
    p9015 min
    Cancel0.6%
    Flights337
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights30

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline45%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)23%
  • Late aircraft32%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline50%
  • Weather50%
  • Air traffic (NAS)0%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Airline. Shares are among 2 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly ONT → IAH

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 87% on time.

  • Mornings87% on time · p90 15 min · 767 flights
  • Middays73% on time · p90 70 min · 131 flights · limited
  • Afternoons57% on time · p90 70 min · 155 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 73% to 91% on time.

  • Tuesdays91% on time · p90 10 min · 116 flights · limited
  • Saturdays89% on time · p90 10 min · 132 flights · limited
  • Thursdays86% on time · p90 20 min · 142 flights · limited
  • Sundays82% on time · p90 25 min · 151 flights · limited
  • Fridays76% on time · p90 45 min · 210 flights
  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 40 min · 139 flights · limited
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 45 min · 204 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.