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Route Reliability

San Francisco → Columbus

SFOCMH · 2,120 miles · San Francisco International Airport to John Glenn Columbus International Airport

80
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
76%
Arrive within 15 minutes
5 min
Average arrival delay
0.7%
Cancelled
287
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

United Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 76% of the time across 287 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

The 6–9 AM departure wins.

SFO–CMH flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 88% of the time, versus 64% between 9 AM–12 PM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

SFO–CMH flights arrived on time 83% of the time on Saturdays. On Fridays: 69%.

Recent months have been rougher.

SFO–CMH flights arrived on time 73% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 88% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon82%(39 flights)
  • Tue76%(38 flights)
  • Wed74%(39 flights)
  • Thu74%(42 flights)
  • Fri69%(42 flights)
  • Sat83%(41 flights)
  • Sun74%(43 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM88%(68 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM64%(11 flights)
  • 12–3 PM75%(91 flights)
  • 3–6 PM83%(24 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM68%(90 flights)
On-time trend by month
60%
May

Jun 67% → May 60% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202567%30
July 202555%31
August 202583%30
September 202594%33
October 202594%32
November 202576%33
March 202685%27
April 202673%30
May 202660%37

Based on 287 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.