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Route Reliability

Indianapolis → San Francisco

IND–SFO · 1,943 miles · Indianapolis International Airport to San Francisco International Airport

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Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
80%
Arrive within 15 minutes
8 min
Average arrival delay
0.6%
Cancelled
528
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

United Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 80% of the time across 528 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

IND–SFO flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 87% of the time, versus 67% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

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

Slipping a little lately.

IND–SFO flights arrived on time 72% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 78% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon80%(85 flights)
  • Tue87%(67 flights)
  • Wed87%(68 flights)
  • Thu75%(81 flights)
  • Fri75%(73 flights)
  • Sat86%(64 flights)
  • Sun71%(86 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM87%(252 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM81%(111 flights)
  • 3–6 PM—(6 flights)
  • 6–9 PM67%(155 flights)
On-time trend by month
61%
May

Jun 88% → May 61% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202588%50
July 202583%54
August 202581%43
September 202591%34
October 202590%49
November 202583%48
December 202569%42
January 202684%31
February 202682%28
March 202688%33
April 202666%53
May 202661%59

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Based on 528 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.