Airport month record

OMAOCT

Eppley Airfield in October 2025

Departures: 2,192
Month: October 2025
National, same month: 79.7%
Carriers: 10

Historical statistics for October 2025, not live status or a forecast for this year’s October. For today’s conditions at OMA, see live FAA status.

OMA in October earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 5 points better than the national rate of 79.7%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 2,192 flights, of which SkyWest Airlines flew 490 at 89.5% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, OMA's October record is 5 points better than the US average of 79.7%. That gap is worth roughly 46 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,185 completed departures

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.14%

Nationally in October: 0.53%

Whole year

80.7%

OMA across all twelve months

These figures cover 2,192 departures from Eppley Airfield in October 2025. 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

October next to OMA's other months

Against OMA's own year, October ran 4 points better than the twelve-month rate of 80.7%, which makes it number three of twelve months, best first. Cancellations were unusually low for OMA in October, at 0.14% against 1.26% across the year. Either side of it, September ran 86.1% on time and November 81.9%, so this month sits in line with its neighbours.

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 (this page)	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	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 October

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 24 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am503 flights93.2%
8am–11am404 flights88.6%
11am–2pm374 flights85.8%
2pm–5pm459 flights80.6%
5pm–8pm364 flights74.0%
8pm–5am88 flights69.3%

Scale runs 60% to 100%.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.2% of the time, against 69.3% for the overnight window. That is 24 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 503 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 77.5%, a spread of 13 points.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at OMA in October

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. SkyWest Airlines arrives on time 89.5% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 82.1%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 681 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at OMA in October 2025
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Southwest Airlines	681	82.1%	44 min	0.15%	B+
SkyWest Airlines	490	89.5%	58 min	0.20%	A+
United Airlinesthin sample	303	80.2%	42 min	0.00%	B+
American Airlinesthin sample	242	83.0%	86 min	0.00%	B+
Delta Air Linesthin sample	145	93.1%	144 min	0.00%	A+
Envoy Airthin sample	122	81.0%	56 min	0.82%	B+
PSA Airlinesthin sample	62	85.5%	63 min	0.00%	A+
Allegiant Airthin sample	54	79.6%	60 min	0.00%	B+
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	34	82.4%	81 min	0.00%	B+
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	31	74.2%	154 min	0.00%	C+

SkyWest leads Southwest by 7 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of OMA in October

Routes from OMA in October 2025
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
OMA to DEN · Denverthin sample	288	81.9%	55 min	0.00%	B+
OMA to ORD · Chicagothin sample	266	77.0%	46 min	0.38%	B+
OMA to PHX · Phoenixthin sample	165	83.5%	60 min	0.61%	B+
OMA to ATL · Atlantathin sample	152	92.1%	129 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to DFW · Dallas-Fort Worththin sample	148	80.8%	72 min	0.68%	B+
OMA to MSP · Minneapolisthin sample	141	90.8%	115 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to MDW · Chicagothin sample	123	81.3%	59 min	0.00%	B+
OMA to DTW · Detroitthin sample	117	90.6%	46 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample	96	86.5%	43 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to STL · St. Louisthin sample	88	86.4%	31 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to CLT · Charlottethin sample	82	89.0%	148 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to PHL · Philadelphiathin sample	62	85.5%	63 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to IAH · Houstonthin sample	61	86.9%	51 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	61	95.1%	18 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to DCA · Washingtonthin sample	54	85.2%	34 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample	44	79.1%	23 min	0.00%	B+
OMA to HOU · Houstonthin sample	35	85.7%	30 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to DAL · Dallasthin sample	35	71.4%	42 min	0.00%	C+
OMA to SEA · Seattlethin sample	34	82.4%	81 min	0.00%	B+
OMA to MCO · Orlandothin sample	33	87.9%	22 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to SFO · San Franciscothin sample	31	90.3%	28 min	0.00%	A+
OMA to BNA · Nashvillethin sample	31	80.6%	47 min	0.00%	B+

Delay causes

What held OMA up in October

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 20,000 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
40%
Late-arriving aircraft
38%
National Airspace System
21%
Extreme weather
0%

38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 20,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 38 to one. The split is drawn from 20,155 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.14%, below the national 0.53% 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 4.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 6.3% 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 October

For a October trip through OMA: this is one of the better months to be flying from here, 84.3% on time with 0.14% 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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