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Route Reliability

Memphis → Houston

MEM–HOU · 484 miles · Memphis International Airport to William P. Hobby Airport

83
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
79%
Arrive within 15 minutes
4 min
Average arrival delay
0.9%
Cancelled
812
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 79% of the time across 812 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

MEM–HOU flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 93% of the time, versus 65% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

MEM–HOU flights arrived on time 89% of the time on Wednesdays and just 71% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

MEM–HOU flights arrived on time 76% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 87% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon77%(137 flights)
  • Tue88%(112 flights)
  • Wed89%(111 flights)
  • Thu74%(138 flights)
  • Fri74%(135 flights)
  • Sat82%(56 flights)
  • Sun71%(115 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM92%(210 flights)
  • 6–9 AM93%(114 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM79%(56 flights)
  • 12–3 PM65%(102 flights)
  • 3–6 PM87%(63 flights)
  • 6–9 PM65%(259 flights)
On-time trend by month
66%
May

Jun 61% → May 66% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202561%67
July 202573%69
August 202572%68
September 202590%69
October 202587%78
November 202576%58
December 202584%61
January 202689%54
February 202689%52
March 202684%80
April 202677%74
May 202666%74

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Based on 812 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.