OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

San Diego to Austin

1,164 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SAN–AUS arrive on time 73% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate73%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.4%of scheduled flights

based on 2,055 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.

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.2%
    Flights1,376
  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9060 min
    Cancel0.9%
    Flights679

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline23%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)17%
  • Late aircraft57%
  • 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 SAN → AUS

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 85% on time.

  • Mornings85% on time · p90 20 min · 2,070 flights
  • Evenings70% on time · p90 60 min · 1,505 flights
  • Afternoons69% on time · p90 45 min · 1,013 flights
  • Middays67% on time · p90 40 min · 1,457 flights
  • Overnights59% on time · p90 70 min · 209 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 68% to 81% on time.

  • Saturdays81% on time · p90 35 min · 644 flights
  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 30 min · 871 flights
  • Wednesdays79% on time · p90 30 min · 888 flights
  • Mondays72% on time · p90 40 min · 983 flights
  • Thursdays70% on time · p90 50 min · 962 flights
  • Sundays70% on time · p90 50 min · 926 flights
  • Fridays68% on time · p90 50 min · 980 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.