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Route Reliability

Kansas City → Houston

MCI–HOU · 666 miles · Kansas City International Airport to William P. Hobby Airport

86
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
82%
Arrive within 15 minutes
2 min
Average arrival delay
0.7%
Cancelled
1,003
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 82% of the time across 1,003 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

MCI–HOU flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 93% of the time, versus 58% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

MCI–HOU flights arrived on time 91% of the time on Wednesdays and just 75% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

MCI–HOU flights arrived on time 84% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 91% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon81%(150 flights)
  • Tue86%(133 flights)
  • Wed91%(131 flights)
  • Thu81%(144 flights)
  • Fri82%(151 flights)
  • Sat80%(122 flights)
  • Sun75%(163 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM93%(89 flights)
  • 6–9 AM93%(278 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM92%(137 flights)
  • 12–3 PM78%(125 flights)
  • 3–6 PM80%(168 flights)
  • 6–9 PM58%(196 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM—(1 flights)
On-time trend by month
80%
May

Jun 67% → May 80% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202567%87
July 202578%90
August 202584%80
September 202583%77
October 202578%86
November 202574%78
December 202586%79
January 202690%69
February 202696%75
March 202689%91
April 202681%90
May 202680%92

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Based on 1,003 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.