Airport month record

OMAFEB

Eppley Airfield in February 2026

Departures: 1,803
Month: February 2026
National, same month: 80.2%
Carriers: 8

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

OMA in February earns an A+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 80.2%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 1,803 flights, of which SkyWest Airlines flew 396 at 88.1% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, OMA's February record is 7 points better than the US average of 80.2%. That gap is worth roughly 67 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

86.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,797 completed departures

Avg delay

69 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.28%

Nationally in February: 2.25%

Whole year

80.7%

OMA across all twelve months

These figures cover 1,803 departures from Eppley Airfield 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 OMA's other months

Against OMA's own year, February ran 6 points better than the twelve-month rate of 80.7%, which makes it the best of the twelve months in the data. Cancellations were unusually low for OMA in February, at 0.28% against 1.26% across the year. Either side of it, January ran 81.4% on time and March 78.6%, so a trip moved by a few weeks would have landed in a worse stretch.

OMA month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
September 2025	1,955	86.1%	59 min	0.56%	A+
October 2025	2,192	84.3%	59 min	0.14%	B+
November 2025	2,035	81.9%	87 min	1.92%	B
December 2025	2,067	76.3%	79 min	0.97%	B+
January 2026	1,945	81.4%	69 min	2.21%	B
February 2026 (this page)	1,803	86.9%	69 min	0.28%	A+
March 2026	2,120	78.6%	89 min	3.40%	B−
April 2026	2,053	82.5%	78 min	1.27%	B
May 2026	2,223	81.8%	76 min	0.58%	B+
June 2026	2,348	75.1%	81 min	0.94%	B+
July 2026	2,401	78.5%	87 min	1.75%	B
August 2026	2,244	76.5%	87 min	1.02%	B

Departure window

The best time of day to leave OMA in February

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 14 points, against 3 points between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am506 flights94.5%
8am–11am244 flights85.6%
11am–2pm285 flights84.9%
2pm–5pm393 flights85.4%
5pm–8pm361 flights80.5%
8pm–5am14 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 94.5% of the time, against 80.5% for the evening window. That is 14 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 506 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Saturday is the strongest day at 91.2% on time and Friday the weakest at 82.5%, a spread of 9 points.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at OMA in February

The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.

Carriers at OMA in February 2026
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	565	85.1%	51 min	0.18%	A+
SkyWest Airlines	396	88.1%	96 min	0.25%	A+
United Airlinesthin sample	239	85.8%	67 min	0.00%	A+
American Airlinesthin sample	229	88.0%	64 min	1.31%	A
Delta Air Linesthin sample	134	96.3%	98 min	0.00%	A+
Envoy Airthin sample	76	89.5%	82 min	0.00%	A+
Republic Airwaysthin sample	60	78.3%	85 min	0.00%	B+
Allegiant Airthin sample	48	85.4%	70 min	0.00%	A+

No carrier stands out. SkyWest tops the table at 88.1%, 3 points clear of the bottom, which is inside the range this kind of sample moves year to year.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of OMA in February

Routes from OMA in February 2026
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OMA to DEN · Denverthin sample	223	81.6%	71 min	0.00%	B+
OMA to ORD · Chicagothin sample	201	84.6%	66 min	0.00%	B+
OMA to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	162	87.0%	46 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to ATL · Atlantathin sample	142	95.8%	111 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	110	87.0%	53 min	0.91%	A+
OMA to MSP · Minneapolisthin sample	106	88.7%	172 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	88	87.5%	75 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to MDW · Chicagothin sample	80	91.1%	41 min	1.25%	A
OMA to IAH · Houstonthin sample	79	89.9%	80 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to CLT · Charlottethin sample	79	84.4%	74 min	2.53%	B
OMA to DTW · Detroitthin sample	73	83.3%	76 min	1.37%	B
OMA to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	56	87.5%	47 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to STL · St. Louisthin sample	55	83.6%	58 min	0.00%	B+
OMA to DCA · Washingtonthin sample	51	76.5%	59 min	0.00%	B+
OMA to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample	50	94.0%	48 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to MIA · Miamithin sample	33	93.9%	25 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to MCO · Orlandothin sample	32	81.2%	63 min	0.00%	B+
OMA to BNA · Nashvillethin sample	31	87.1%	39 min	0.00%	A+

Delay causes

What held OMA up in February

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 16,000 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
36%
Carrier
34%
National Airspace System
22%
Extreme weather
8%
Security
1%

36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 16,112 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.28%, below the national 2.25% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

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 OMA in February

For a February trip through OMA: this is one of the better months to be flying from here, 86.9% on time with 0.28% cancelled. That is a base rate for the month as a whole; a single storm can still spoil a particular day.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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