Route Reliability
Long Beach → Houston
LGB–HOU · 1,374 miles · Long Beach Airport to William P. Hobby Airport
- 81%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 4 min
- Average arrival delay
- 0.2%
- Cancelled
- 503
- Flights in the data
Data through May 2026.
Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 81% of the time across 503 flights. No comparison to make.
What the data says
Morning flights do better here.
LGB–HOU flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 93% of the time, versus 74% between 12–3 PM.
Wednesday is the weak spot.
LGB–HOU flights arrived on time 85% of the time on Fridays. On Wednesdays: 74%.
It basically never cancels.
Out of 503 scheduled flights, only 0.2% were cancelled.
Recent months have been rougher.
LGB–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
- Mon81%(80 flights)
- Tue83%(75 flights)
- Wed74%(73 flights)
- Thu82%(76 flights)
- Fri85%(81 flights)
- Sat80%(51 flights)
- Sun77%(61 flights)
- 6–9 AM93%(151 flights)
- 9 AM–12 PM85%(46 flights)
- 12–3 PM74%(299 flights)
- 3–6 PM—(1 flights)
Jun 90% → May 68% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 90% | 48 |
| July 2025 | 83% | 53 |
| August 2025 | 90% | 51 |
| September 2025 | 94% | 52 |
| October 2025 | 90% | 52 |
| November 2025 | 73% | 45 |
| December 2025 | 71% | 42 |
| January 2026 | 91% | 34 |
| February 2026 | 75% | 28 |
| March 2026 | 36% | 31 |
| April 2026 | 80% | 30 |
| May 2026 | 68% | 31 |
Same trip, other airports
Keep nerding
Based on 503 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.