Carrier route record
OOOMA→IAH
SkyWest Airlines · Omaha to Houston
- Flights
- 122
- 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 OMA to IAH sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 122 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate SkyWest on OMA to IAH from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
74.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 121 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
87.3%
Every carrier on OMA to IAH, 809 flights
These figures cover 122 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% 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 OMA to IAH
SkyWest flew 122 of the 809 flights on OMA to IAH, about 15% of it. Its 74.4% on time is 13 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 87.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from United at 89.6% to SkyWest at 74.4%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 687 | 89.6% | 71 min | 0.58% | A+ |
| SkyWest Airlines (this page)thin sample | 122 | 74.4% | 74 min | 0.00% | C+ |
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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 122 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split SkyWest's OMA to IAH record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 74.4% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
SkyWest on OMA to IAH through the year
- Oct–Dec 202512 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202657 flights82.5%
- Apr–Jun 202633 flights50.0%
- Jul–Sep 202620 flights—
Scale runs 40% to 90%. 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 74.4% on time across 122 flights.
Split by quarter, SkyWest on OMA to IAH logged 12 flights in Oct–Dec 2025, 57 flights in Jan–Mar 2026, 33 flights in Apr–Jun 2026 and 20 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 74.4% annual figure is the one to use.
Arrival by arrival
How late SkyWest on OMA to IAH runs when it is late
SkyWest on OMA to IAH often beats the schedule: 36 of 121 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 31 late arrivals split 9 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early36 flights29.8%
- Within 15 min54 flights44.6%
- 15–29 min late9 flights7.4%
- 30–59 min late10 flights8.3%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights5.0%
- 2+ hours late6 flights5.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 121 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 26 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 7 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at IAH.
The worst days
Worst days for SkyWest on OMA to IAH
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 March 2026, 4 hours 21 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as national airspace system delay. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2026 | 4 hours 21 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 4 December 2025 | 3 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 18 February 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 June 2026 | 2 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 March 2026 | 2 hours 55 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why SkyWest runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 2,296 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%National Airspace System
- 18%Extreme weather
- 14%Carrier
Extreme weather accounts for 18% 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 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,296 reported delay minutes.
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 2,296 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
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
9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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 80.5% on time across 123 flights, 6 points above 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. 122 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 OMA to IAH
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 122 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 74.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 121 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OMA to IAH, every carrier
- SkyWest on IAH to OMA, the return leg
- United Airlines on OMA to IAH89.6%
- SkyWest Airlines network-wide record
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) delay statistics
- George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.