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Route Reliability

Cincinnati → Houston

CVGIAH · 871 miles · Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to George Bush Intercontinental Airport

88
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
84%
Arrive within 15 minutes
0 min
Average arrival delay
1.0%
Cancelled
1,064
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • United Airlines85% on time · 1,012 flights
  • Frontier Airlines77% on time · 52 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

CVG–IAH flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 46% between 6–9 PM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

CVG–IAH flights arrived on time 91% of the time on Tuesdays. On Fridays: 79%.

Slipping a little lately.

CVG–IAH flights arrived on time 85% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 89% 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
  • Mon83%(156 flights)
  • Tue91%(134 flights)
  • Wed87%(142 flights)
  • Thu87%(170 flights)
  • Fri79%(154 flights)
  • Sat81%(125 flights)
  • Sun83%(171 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM92%(380 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM87%(284 flights)
  • 12–3 PM76%(21 flights)
  • 3–6 PM76%(356 flights)
  • 6–9 PM46%(11 flights)
On-time trend by month
84%
May

Jun 80% → May 84% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202580%96
July 202577%95
August 202580%91
September 202587%85
October 202587%96
November 202583%98
December 202582%74
January 202693%72
February 202690%73
March 202683%90
April 202689%90
May 202684%92

Based on 1,064 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.