Airport month record

AUSFEB

Austin-Bergstrom International in February 2026

Departures: 6,471
Month: February 2026
National, same month: 80.2%
Carriers: 11

Historical statistics for February 2026, not live status or a forecast for this year’s February. For today’s conditions at AUS, see live FAA status.

AUS in February lands a B+, 2 points better than the national rate of 80.2%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 6,471 flights, of which United Airlines flew 816 at 88.5% on time.

United Airlines is the most reliable of the five carriers covered here at 88.5% on time across 816 flights.

On time

81.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 6,393 completed departures

Avg delay

68 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.99%

Nationally in February: 2.25%

Whole year

76.6%

AUS across all twelve months

These figures cover 6,471 departures from Austin-Bergstrom International in February 2026. On time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the DOT's threshold, and the national comparison uses every US departure in the same month rather than the whole year.

Against the year

February next to AUS's other months

Against AUS's own year, February ran 5 points better than the twelve-month rate of 76.6%, which makes it number three of twelve months, best first. Either side of it, January ran 82.8% on time and March 73.3%, so a trip moved by a few weeks would have landed in a worse stretch.

AUS month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
July 2025	7,896	69.6%	80 min	1.61%	C
August 2025	7,214	78.1%	74 min	0.94%	B+
September 2025	6,889	84.2%	65 min	0.39%	B+
October 2025	7,845	76.8%	61 min	0.40%	B+
November 2025	7,346	76.0%	75 min	1.05%	B
December 2025	7,528	77.9%	70 min	0.62%	B+
January 2026	6,707	82.8%	84 min	4.65%	B−
February 2026 (this page)	6,471	81.9%	68 min	0.99%	B+
March 2026	7,973	73.3%	73 min	1.71%	C
April 2026	7,647	77.5%	64 min	0.59%	B+
May 2026	7,831	75.1%	71 min	0.91%	B+
June 2026	7,879	69.1%	69 min	0.98%	C+

Departure window

The best time of day to leave AUS in February

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 20 points, against 10 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am1,243 flights91.4%
8am–11am1,032 flights89.9%
11am–2pm1,099 flights83.5%
2pm–5pm1,473 flights75.7%
5pm–8pm1,182 flights75.0%
8pm–5am442 flights71.9%

Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.4% of the time, against 71.9% for the overnight window. That is 20 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 1,473 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 86.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 77.0%. 10 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at AUS in February

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. United Airlines arrives on time 88.5% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 79.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 2,739 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at AUS in February 2026
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	2,739	79.0%	41 min	0.33%	B+
Delta Air Lines	920	85.4%	87 min	1.96%	A
American Airlines	842	82.9%	131 min	1.90%	B
United Airlines	816	88.5%	62 min	0.86%	A+
SkyWest Airlines	633	80.7%	85 min	0.32%	B+
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	137	83.2%	106 min	0.00%	B+
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	108	93.5%	101 min	0.00%	A+
Spirit Airlinesthin sample	95	63.2%	85 min	8.42%	D−
JetBlue Airwaysthin sample	66	76.2%	80 min	4.55%	B−
Envoy Airthin sample	43	86.0%	50 min	0.00%	A+
Republic Airwaysthin sample	35	65.7%	109 min	0.00%	C+

United leads Southwest by 10 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of AUS in February

Routes from AUS in February 2026
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AUS to DEN · Denver	421	81.6%	59 min	0.24%	B+
AUS to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	337	77.9%	130 min	0.59%	B+
AUS to ATL · Atlantathin sample	332	88.8%	74 min	0.60%	A+
AUS to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample	279	84.3%	59 min	1.43%	B
AUS to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	271	84.1%	43 min	0.00%	B+
AUS to MCO · Orlandothin sample	229	70.7%	69 min	0.87%	C+
AUS to BNA · Nashvillethin sample	225	82.7%	50 min	0.00%	B+
AUS to SAN · San Diegothin sample	215	82.2%	50 min	0.00%	B+
AUS to ORD · Chicagothin sample	214	79.0%	65 min	0.00%	B+
AUS to IAH · Houstonthin sample	213	93.4%	43 min	0.00%	A+
AUS to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	210	81.4%	51 min	0.00%	B+
AUS to DAL · Dallasthin sample	188	78.4%	42 min	1.60%	B
AUS to SFO · San Franciscothin sample	182	77.3%	67 min	0.00%	B+
AUS to MIA · Miamithin sample	182	85.6%	43 min	0.55%	A+
AUS to JFK · New Yorkthin sample	160	87.8%	113 min	7.50%	A−
AUS to MSY · New Orleansthin sample	156	80.1%	70 min	0.00%	B+
AUS to EWR · Newarkthin sample	148	84.8%	101 min	6.76%	B−
AUS to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	141	87.9%	79 min	0.71%	A+
AUS to HOU · Houstonthin sample	126	80.0%	38 min	0.00%	B+
AUS to CLT · Charlottethin sample	125	85.8%	152 min	3.20%	A−
AUS to MSP · Minneapolisthin sample	124	83.1%	79 min	0.00%	B+
AUS to SEA · Seattlethin sample	124	89.5%	81 min	0.00%	A+
AUS to TPA · Tampathin sample	122	82.8%	45 min	0.00%	B+
AUS to BOS · Bostonthin sample	119	65.7%	89 min	8.40%	C−
AUS to FLL · Fort Lauderdalethin sample	110	73.8%	56 min	2.73%	C

Delay causes

What held AUS up in February

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 46% of the 79,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
46%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
National Airspace System
19%
Extreme weather
2%
Security
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 36,000 of the 79,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 78,554 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations sit at 0.99% against a national 2.25%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.22%.

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 6.5% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

What to do with this

Flying from AUS in February

For a February trip through AUS: this is one of the better months to be flying from here, 81.9% on time with 0.99% cancelled. That is a base rate for the month as a whole; a single storm can still spoil a particular day.

Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS), the whole year
AUS in July69.6%
AUS in August78.1%
AUS in September84.2%
AUS in October76.8%
AUS in November76.0%
AUS in December77.9%
AUS in January82.8%
AUS in March73.3%
AUS in April77.5%
AUS in May75.1%
AUS in June69.1%

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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