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Route Reliability

Chicago → Las Vegas

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

80
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
78%
Arrive within 15 minutes
6 min
Average arrival delay
1.0%
Cancelled
2,405
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Southwest Airlines78% on time · 2,388 flights
  • Frontier Airlines93% 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.

MDW–LAS flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 93% of the time, versus 54% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Skip Thursday if you can.

MDW–LAS flights arrived on time 83% of the time on Saturdays. On Thursdays: 76%.

Slipping a little lately.

MDW–LAS flights arrived on time 74% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 78% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon76%(360 flights)
  • Tue77%(340 flights)
  • Wed81%(338 flights)
  • Thu76%(351 flights)
  • Fri76%(358 flights)
  • Sat83%(259 flights)
  • Sun77%(366 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM93%(200 flights)
  • 6–9 AM91%(474 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM84%(450 flights)
  • 12–3 PM76%(353 flights)
  • 3–6 PM69%(412 flights)
  • 6–9 PM64%(334 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM54%(149 flights)
On-time trend by month
79%
May

Jun 79% → May 79% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202579%252
July 202570%253
August 202584%215
September 202584%210
October 202584%209
November 202577%168
December 202569%185
January 202684%160
February 202680%138
March 202665%191
April 202677%190
May 202679%201

Based on 2,405 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.