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Route Reliability

Houston → JAN

HOU–JAN · 359 miles · William P. Hobby Airport to JAN Airport

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Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
80%
Arrive within 15 minutes
5 min
Average arrival delay
0.4%
Cancelled
729
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 80% of the time across 729 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

HOU–JAN flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 90% of the time, versus 54% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

HOU–JAN flights arrived on time 88% of the time on Tuesdays and just 69% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

HOU–JAN flights arrived on time 76% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 87% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon78%(103 flights)
  • Tue88%(104 flights)
  • Wed83%(104 flights)
  • Thu77%(103 flights)
  • Fri77%(104 flights)
  • Sat86%(104 flights)
  • Sun69%(104 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 9 AM–12 PM90%(352 flights)
  • 12–3 PM82%(11 flights)
  • 3–6 PM—(9 flights)
  • 6–9 PM72%(313 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM54%(41 flights)
On-time trend by month
74%
May

Jun 67% → May 74% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202567%60
July 202571%62
August 202581%62
September 202583%60
October 202584%62
November 202578%59
December 202586%62
January 202695%60
February 202682%55
March 202674%62
April 202680%60
May 202674%62

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 729 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.