Route
LAX → IAH
Los Angeles International Airport George Bush Intercontinental Airport
How punctual is this route?
- On-time arrivals
- 84.6%
- Less than 15 minutes late
- Cancelled
- 0.5%
- Of scheduled flights
- Average delay when late
- 67 min
- Flights arriving 15+ minutes late
- Flights tracked
- 5,143
- Scheduled flights in the period
What caused the delays
- Late-arriving aircraft 37%
- Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning) 36%
- Air traffic control & airport 25%
- Extreme weather 2%
- Security 0%
Share of delay minutes airlines attributed to each cause (BTS).
Show as table
| Month | On time | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | 92.3% | 439 |
| October 2025 | 87.8% | 493 |
| November 2025 | 77.4% | 446 |
| December 2025 | 79.2% | 448 |
| January 2026 | 86.7% | 437 |
| February 2026 | 86.4% | 398 |
| March 2026 | 79.9% | 446 |
| April 2026 | 88.0% | 436 |
| May 2026 | 87.4% | 422 |
| June 2026 | 83.6% | 395 |
| July 2026 | 83.1% | 414 |
| August 2026 | 83.2% | 369 |
Source: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics on-time data, September 2025 – August 2026. Covers flights operated by reporting U.S. carriers. About our data
Airlines on this route
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg. delay when late |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 3,420 | 87.4% | 0.2% | 59 min |
| Delta Air Lines | 648 | 84.8% | 0.9% | 77 min |
| SkyWest Airlines | 408 | 81.2% | 0.5% | 75 min |
| Frontier Airlines | 336 | 70.6% | 1.5% | 78 min |
| NK | 331 | 73.0% | 1.5% | 79 min |
Delay odds by flight
How often each flight number arrived 15 or more minutes late over the last year.
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DL1143
14% late · 365 flights
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UA2377
14% late · 364 flights
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UA1416
8% late · 320 flights
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F91756
30% late · 310 flights
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UA491
10% late · 286 flights
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DL1287
16% late · 283 flights
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UA2086
14% late · 261 flights
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UA654
5% late · 253 flights
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UA1591
28% late · 180 flights
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UA277
12% late · 180 flights
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UA1680
13% late · 167 flights
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UA2403
18% late · 162 flights
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OO4916
14% late · 156 flights
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UA1397
5% late · 150 flights
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UA1293
39% late · 103 flights
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NK1259
29% late · 96 flights
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OO5005
23% late · 75 flights
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UA744
1% late · 74 flights
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UA1571
7% late · 69 flights
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NK1514
25% late · 55 flights
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NK3224
16% late · 55 flights
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UA2372
13% late · 53 flights
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OO6389
15% late · 46 flights
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OO6283
26% late · 44 flights
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