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Southwest Airlines ATL to HOU on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Atlanta to Houston · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
80%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
0.7%
11 flights
Avg arrival delay
12 min
57 min when late
Rank on route
#2 of 2
route average 81% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on ATL to HOU arrived on time 80% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 0.7% were cancelled, and 6% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #2 of 2 airlines on this route, which averaged 81% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (54%).

On-time trend by month

60%80%100%July 2025: 72.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 76.3% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 87.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 76.9% on time, 0.8% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 79.5% on time, 2.2% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 79.5% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 89.2% on time, 1.6% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 91.2% on time, 0.0% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 77.1% on time, 0.8% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 85.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 71.9% on time, 1.6% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 73.9% on time, 0.9% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 72.9% on time, 0.8% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft54%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)30%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion13%
  • Extreme weather3%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on ATL to HOU

1,482 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 11 cancelled, 4 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.