OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

San Antonio to St. Louis

786 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SAT–STL arrive on time 87% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate87%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay20 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.7%of scheduled flights

based on 560 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time87%
    Medianon time
    p9020 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights560

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline23%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)4%
  • Late aircraft69%
  • 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 SAT → STL

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 68% to 94% on time.

  • Mornings94% on time · p90 5 min · 594 flights
  • Middays92% on time · p90 5 min · 403 flights
  • Afternoons75% on time · p90 30 min · 414 flights
  • Evenings68% on time · p90 50 min · 125 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 83% to 90% on time.

  • Saturdays90% on time · p90 10 min · 156 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays90% on time · p90 10 min · 223 flights
  • Mondays89% on time · p90 15 min · 241 flights
  • Wednesdays86% on time · p90 15 min · 220 flights
  • Thursdays84% on time · p90 25 min · 240 flights
  • Fridays83% on time · p90 25 min · 243 flights
  • Sundays83% on time · p90 40 min · 213 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.