Carrier route record
OOIAH→OMA
SkyWest Airlines · Houston to Omaha
- Flights
- 123
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 15%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with SkyWest Airlines.
SkyWest on IAH to OMA lands a B+, 3 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 123 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on IAH to OMA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 123 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.8%
Every carrier on IAH to OMA, 810 flights
These figures cover 123 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
SkyWest against every carrier on IAH to OMA
SkyWest flew 123 of the 810 flights on IAH to OMA, about 15% of it. Its 80.5% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 77.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 80.5% to United at 77.4%.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 123 | 80.5% | 70 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| United Airlines | 687 | 77.4% | 57 min | 0.15% | B+ |
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Departure window
When SkyWest runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 123 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split SkyWest's IAH to OMA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 80.5% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
SkyWest on IAH to OMA through the year
- Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202657 flights91.2%
- Apr–Jun 202633 flights60.6%
- Jul–Sep 202621 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 80.5% on time across 123 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on IAH to OMA logged 12 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 57 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 33 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 21 flights in Jul–Sep 2026. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 80.5% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on IAH to OMA runs when it is late
The 24 late arrivals split 9 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early27 flights22.0%
- Within 15 min72 flights58.5%
- 15–29 min late9 flights7.3%
- 30–59 min late4 flights3.3%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights5.7%
- 2+ hours late4 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 123 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
3 of 21 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on IAH to OMA
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 February 2026, 3 hours 49 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across February, December, August and June, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 February 2026 | 3 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 December 2025 | 3 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 August 2026 | 2 hours 24 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 20 June 2026 | 2 hours 16 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 4 June 2026 | 1 hour 50 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 45% of the 1,667 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Carrier
- 25%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 21% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,667 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 745 of the 1,667 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 781 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.4% on time across 122 flights, 6 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 123 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking SkyWest on IAH to OMA
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 123 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 80.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 123 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- IAH to OMA, every carrier
- SkyWest on OMA to IAH, the return leg
- United Airlines on IAH to OMA77.4%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) delay statistics
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) delay statistics
- Connecting flights: how much buffer the data says you need
- Late aircraft, weather, or the airline: what actually causes US flight delays
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.