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Route Reliability

St. Louis → Little Rock

STLLIT · 296 miles · St. Louis Lambert International Airport to Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport

87
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
84%
Arrive within 15 minutes
3 min
Average arrival delay
1.0%
Cancelled
516
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 84% of the time across 516 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

STL–LIT flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 91% of the time, versus 68% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Saturdays have been rough.

STL–LIT flights arrived on time 94% of the time on Wednesdays and just 76% on Saturdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Ticking up lately.

STL–LIT flights arrived on time 88% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 85% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon85%(79 flights)
  • Tue86%(80 flights)
  • Wed94%(80 flights)
  • Thu81%(77 flights)
  • Fri83%(75 flights)
  • Sat76%(42 flights)
  • Sun77%(77 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 9 AM–12 PM91%(231 flights)
  • 12–3 PM83%(30 flights)
  • 3–6 PM(9 flights)
  • 6–9 PM90%(94 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM68%(146 flights)
On-time trend by month
92%
Feb

Jun 73% → Feb 92% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202573%55
July 202574%57
August 202586%55
September 202584%56
October 202588%57
November 202584%56
December 202580%59
January 202693%55
February 202692%52

Based on 516 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.