OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Pittsburgh to Houston

1,131 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on PIT–HOU arrive on time 76% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate76%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.7%of scheduled flights

based on 152 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights152

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline20%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)22%
  • Late aircraft56%
  • 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 PIT → HOU

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 71% to 84% on time.

  • Middays84% on time · p90 20 min · 216 flights
  • Afternoons80% on time · p90 30 min · 128 flights · limited
  • Evenings71% on time · p90 50 min · 486 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 70% to 81% on time.

  • Tuesdays81% on time · p90 30 min · 122 flights · limited
  • Sundays80% on time · p90 30 min · 146 flights · limited
  • Fridays78% on time · p90 30 min · 125 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays75% on time · p90 25 min · 121 flights · limited
  • Thursdays75% on time · p90 70 min · 124 flights · limited
  • Saturdays73% on time · p90 40 min · 86 flights · limited
  • Mondays70% on time · p90 55 min · 126 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.