FRA→IAH

United Airlines flew 51% of the 1,394 flights between FRA and IAH in the DOT's count, with Lufthansa on 679. Loads averaged 267 passengers a flight, which on this route means wide-body aircraft nearly full.

The DOT's international report puts 124 flights on the pair in October 2025, the busiest month of the window, and 94 in February 2026, the thinnest. The schedule is close to flat through the year, which usually means business traffic rather than holiday demand underwrites it.

EUROCONTROL's figures for Frankfurt as a whole, every airline and every destination: 70.8% of departures and 78.3% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 94.8% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 72.5% for departures, 2 points better than the year so far. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 0.6 minutes per arriving flight this year, 0.2 over the last week.

Every US route from Frankfurt, and its full punctuality record

George Bush Intercontinental is scored on this site from the DOT's domestic data: 79.1% of its 118,936 domestic departures arrived on time over the last twelve months, with delayed flights running a little over an hour late, and 1.10% were cancelled. Those are domestic flights, not this route, but an arriving transatlantic flight shares the same runways, the same weather and the same ground delay programmes, so a bad day at IAH reaches a flight from FRA just as surely. The airport's own page has the hour-by-hour and month-by-month detail, and its live FAA status appears above when the FAA has something to say.

George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) delay statistics, hour by hour and month by month

Every flight that departs Frankfurt falls under Regulation (EC) 261/2004, whichever airline flies it and wherever it lands. If it arrives at George Bush Intercontinental three hours or more late, or is cancelled with under 14 days' notice, and the cause was within the airline's control, each passenger is owed €600 (€300 if the airline got you there under four hours late), on top of rebooking and care. Weather, air traffic control restrictions and strikes outside the airline are the usual exemptions. The return flight from IAH is covered only when the carrier is EU based. The sector is about 5,220 miles, 8,399 km, which puts it in the top distance band.

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There is no grade to give FRA to IAH without a route record, and this site does not invent one. What the three sources support: about two departures a day in each direction, a choice of two carriers, a departure airport that gets 71% of its departures away on time and an arrival airport that runs 79% on time domestically. Leave two hours for any onward connection at IAH; immigration comes before the connecting flight.

• Frankfurt (FRA): every US route
• George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) delay statistics
• FRA to JFK, New York (JFK)3,168 flights
• FRA to ORD, Chicago (ORD)2,780 flights
• FRA to IAD, Washington (IAD)2,352 flights
• FRA to SFO, San Francisco (SFO)2,330 flights
• LHR to IAH, from London2,689 flights
• AMS to IAH, from Amsterdam1,383 flights
• CDG to IAH, from Paris702 flights
• MUC to IAH, from Munich576 flights
• Every Europe-to-US route and airport

Germany publishes no route-level punctuality, so this page cannot grade the route. The UK pages in this section can, because the CAA does.