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Route Reliability

Houston → New York

HOU–LGA · 1,428 miles · William P. Hobby Airport to LaGuardia Airport

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A Little Dicey
WanderNerd Reliability Score
68%
Arrive within 15 minutes
19 min
Average arrival delay
2.6%
Cancelled
1,359
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 68% of the time across 1,359 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

HOU–LGA flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 95% of the time, versus 34% between 3–6 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

HOU–LGA flights arrived on time 73% of the time on Saturdays. On Sundays: 61%.

Recent months have been rougher.

HOU–LGA flights arrived on time 52% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 76% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon71%(197 flights)
  • Tue73%(201 flights)
  • Wed69%(204 flights)
  • Thu63%(201 flights)
  • Fri69%(200 flights)
  • Sat73%(128 flights)
  • Sun61%(177 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM95%(109 flights)
  • 6–9 AM88%(298 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM73%(315 flights)
  • 12–3 PM62%(194 flights)
  • 3–6 PM34%(101 flights)
  • 6–9 PM49%(291 flights)
On-time trend by month
59%
May

Jun 63% → May 59% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202563%107
July 202578%110
August 202578%110
September 202584%107
October 202563%109
November 202568%109
December 202567%116
January 202684%110
February 202676%97
March 202641%106
April 202658%113
May 202659%114

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Based on 1,359 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.