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Route Reliability

Houston → Tulsa

HOU–TUL · 453 miles · William P. Hobby Airport to Tulsa International Airport

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Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
80%
Arrive within 15 minutes
5 min
Average arrival delay
0.9%
Cancelled
663
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 663 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

HOU–TUL flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 95% of the time, versus 68% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

HOU–TUL flights arrived on time 87% of the time on Wednesdays and just 71% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

HOU–TUL flights arrived on time 75% 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
  • Mon81%(88 flights)
  • Tue83%(77 flights)
  • Wed87%(75 flights)
  • Thu81%(83 flights)
  • Fri84%(88 flights)
  • Sat79%(106 flights)
  • Sun71%(139 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM95%(183 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM91%(75 flights)
  • 12–3 PM72%(50 flights)
  • 3–6 PM70%(46 flights)
  • 6–9 PM78%(88 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM68%(214 flights)
On-time trend by month
72%
May

Jun 73% → May 72% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202573%64
July 202580%64
August 202578%58
September 202593%54
October 202573%69
November 202578%51
December 202581%48
January 202690%57
February 202689%56
March 202666%47
April 202688%42
May 202672%46

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Based on 663 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.