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Route Reliability

Austin → St. Louis

AUSSTL · 721 miles · Austin–Bergstrom International Airport to St. Louis Lambert International Airport

87
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
79%
Arrive within 15 minutes
6 min
Average arrival delay
0.1%
Cancelled
982
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 79% of the time across 982 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

AUS–STL flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 98% of the time, versus 64% between 3–6 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

AUS–STL flights arrived on time 86% of the time on Wednesdays and just 68% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 982 scheduled flights, only 0.1% were cancelled.

Recent months have been rougher.

AUS–STL flights arrived on time 77% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 85% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon78%(148 flights)
  • Tue85%(138 flights)
  • Wed86%(138 flights)
  • Thu81%(149 flights)
  • Fri79%(150 flights)
  • Sat82%(88 flights)
  • Sun68%(169 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM98%(179 flights)
  • 6–9 AM96%(159 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM77%(48 flights)
  • 12–3 PM77%(243 flights)
  • 3–6 PM64%(345 flights)
  • 6–9 PM(6 flights)
On-time trend by month
74%
May

Jun 77% → May 74% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202577%91
July 202572%93
August 202578%76
September 202580%73
October 202583%83
November 202581%85
December 202582%91
January 202690%62
February 202683%59
March 202672%86
April 202685%89
May 202674%92

Based on 982 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.