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Route Reliability

Baltimore → Houston

BWIIAH · 1,235 miles · Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to George Bush Intercontinental Airport

79
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
80%
Arrive within 15 minutes
4 min
Average arrival delay
1.9%
Cancelled
1,414
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Who flies it best

Ranked by on-time arrivals. Historical results, not predictions.

  1. 1.United Airlines83%915 flights
  2. 2.Spirit Airlines77%411 flights

Not enough history to rank: Frontier Airlines (88 flights). We rank airlines only after 100 flights on the route.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

BWI–IAH flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 91% of the time, versus 54% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

BWI–IAH flights arrived on time 86% of the time on Tuesdays. On Fridays: 77%.

United Airlines has a slight edge here.

United Airlines arrived on time 83% of the time on this route; Spirit Airlines managed 77%.

Recent months have been rougher.

BWI–IAH flights arrived on time 75% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 83% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon78%(217 flights)
  • Tue86%(172 flights)
  • Wed81%(187 flights)
  • Thu83%(231 flights)
  • Fri77%(220 flights)
  • Sat81%(156 flights)
  • Sun78%(199 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM81%(16 flights)
  • 6–9 AM91%(406 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM83%(133 flights)
  • 12–3 PM82%(364 flights)
  • 3–6 PM69%(227 flights)
  • 6–9 PM69%(223 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM54%(13 flights)
On-time trend by month
69%
May

Jun 68% → May 69% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202568%108
July 202578%121
August 202586%116
September 202589%123
October 202587%130
November 202583%132
December 202574%105
January 202688%110
February 202686%99
March 202680%109
April 202675%117
May 202669%112

Based on 1,414 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.