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Route Reliability

St. Louis → Omaha

STL–OMA · 342 miles · St. Louis Lambert International Airport to Eppley Airfield

86
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
79%
Arrive within 15 minutes
7 min
Average arrival delay
0.2%
Cancelled
825
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 825 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

STL–OMA flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 94% of the time, versus 59% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

STL–OMA flights arrived on time 90% of the time on Wednesdays and just 67% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

It basically never cancels.

Out of 825 scheduled flights, only 0.2% were cancelled.

Slipping a little lately.

STL–OMA flights arrived on time 74% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 81% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon75%(121 flights)
  • Tue87%(120 flights)
  • Wed90%(117 flights)
  • Thu77%(119 flights)
  • Fri84%(124 flights)
  • Sat74%(87 flights)
  • Sun67%(134 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM94%(84 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM88%(252 flights)
  • 12–3 PM87%(55 flights)
  • 3–6 PM79%(94 flights)
  • 6–9 PM85%(112 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM59%(225 flights)
On-time trend by month
73%
May

Jun 74% → May 73% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202574%62
July 202568%66
August 202586%77
September 202582%78
October 202591%88
November 202581%72
December 202574%73
January 202680%61
February 202687%55
March 202675%61
April 202673%63
May 202673%66

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Based on 825 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.