Route Reliability
Long Beach → Chicago
LGB–MDW · 1,741 miles · Long Beach Airport to Chicago Midway International Airport
- 85%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 1 min early
- Average arrival delay
- 0.7%
- Cancelled
- 292
- Flights in the data
Data through May 2026.
Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 85% of the time across 292 flights. No comparison to make.
What the data says
Morning flights do better here.
LGB–MDW flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 94% of the time, versus 78% between 12–3 PM.
Mondays have been rough.
LGB–MDW flights arrived on time 93% of the time on Saturdays and just 67% on Mondays. That gap is worth planning around.
Recent months have been rougher.
LGB–MDW flights arrived on time 72% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 83% in the three months before that.
Flights on this route
The breakdown
- Mon67%(43 flights)
- Tue79%(42 flights)
- Wed88%(42 flights)
- Thu91%(43 flights)
- Fri91%(44 flights)
- Sat93%(30 flights)
- Sun88%(43 flights)
- 6–9 AM94%(52 flights)
- 9 AM–12 PM86%(143 flights)
- 12–3 PM78%(92 flights)
Jun 93% → May 54% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 93% | 30 |
| July 2025 | 90% | 31 |
| August 2025 | 93% | 30 |
| September 2025 | 97% | 30 |
| October 2025 | 87% | 31 |
| November 2025 | 86% | 28 |
| December 2025 | 77% | 31 |
| March 2026 | 77% | 22 |
| April 2026 | 84% | 25 |
| May 2026 | 54% | 24 |
Same trip, other airports
Keep nerding
Based on 292 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.