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Route Reliability

Los Angeles → Houston

LAXHOU · 1,390 miles · Los Angeles International Airport to William P. Hobby Airport

82
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
77%
Arrive within 15 minutes
7 min
Average arrival delay
0.3%
Cancelled
1,193
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 77% of the time across 1,193 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

LAX–HOU flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 96% of the time, versus 60% between 6–9 PM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

LAX–HOU flights arrived on time 83% of the time on Saturdays. On Fridays: 70%.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 1,193 scheduled flights, only 0.3% were cancelled.

Recent months have been rougher.

LAX–HOU flights arrived on time 61% 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
  • Mon75%(183 flights)
  • Tue80%(166 flights)
  • Wed80%(163 flights)
  • Thu74%(179 flights)
  • Fri70%(182 flights)
  • Sat83%(143 flights)
  • Sun75%(171 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM96%(274 flights)
  • 6–9 AM71%(83 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM77%(97 flights)
  • 12–3 PM65%(310 flights)
  • 3–6 PM72%(94 flights)
  • 6–9 PM60%(88 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM80%(241 flights)
On-time trend by month
64%
May

Jun 82% → May 64% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202582%108
July 202577%114
August 202588%100
September 202590%99
October 202583%109
November 202574%104
December 202571%108
January 202686%92
February 202680%83
March 202647%89
April 202673%89
May 202664%92

Based on 1,193 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.