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Route Reliability

Las Vegas → Chicago

LASMDW · 1,521 miles · Harry Reid International Airport to Chicago Midway International Airport

80
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
79%
Arrive within 15 minutes
5 min
Average arrival delay
0.9%
Cancelled
2,397
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines78% on time · 2,380 flights
  • Frontier Airlines92% on time · 15 flights
  • Allegiant Air50% on time · 2 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.

LAS–MDW flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 96% of the time, versus 58% between 6–9 PM.

Skip Thursday if you can.

LAS–MDW flights arrived on time 84% of the time on Saturdays. On Thursdays: 71%.

Slipping a little lately.

LAS–MDW flights arrived on time 75% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 79% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon79%(363 flights)
  • Tue79%(338 flights)
  • Wed83%(339 flights)
  • Thu71%(351 flights)
  • Fri76%(347 flights)
  • Sat84%(260 flights)
  • Sun79%(362 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM96%(196 flights)
  • 6–9 AM90%(486 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM81%(400 flights)
  • 12–3 PM69%(335 flights)
  • 3–6 PM63%(397 flights)
  • 6–9 PM58%(185 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM87%(361 flights)
On-time trend by month
74%
May

Jun 81% → May 74% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202581%247
July 202573%247
August 202584%212
September 202583%211
October 202578%209
November 202582%171
December 202580%185
January 202678%161
February 202681%141
March 202670%190
April 202681%188
May 202674%198

Based on 2,397 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.