Flights Amarillo → Houston
AMA → IAH
Route overview
The flight route from Amarillo to Houston operates with a high level of punctuality, with 89% of flights arriving on time. On average, the flights experience a delay of 12 minutes, and over the course of a year, approximately 237 flights are scheduled along this route, serving one of the busiest airports in the United States by passenger traffic, which sees around 40,979,422 passengers annually.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Amarillo (AMA) → Houston (IAH) route is operated by United Airlines. Across 317 flights monitored in recent months, 86% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 14 minutes. The cancellation rate is 3.47%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 13.3/100 (low), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Houston the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Amarillo the average ATFM delay is 2.3 minutes.
Heading to Houston: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Amarillo (AMA) to Houston (IAH) heads south-east for about 833 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 28m.
Departures from Amarillo on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 62% of AMA-IAH flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Amarillo the average ATFM delay is 2.3 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into Houston it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 317 tracked AMA-IAH flights, 86% left on time with an average delay of 14 min and a 3.5% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines (UA) | 74% | 10 min | 6.9% |
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Frequently asked questions about AMA-IAH
On the Amarillo (AMA) -> Houston (IAH) route, on-time performance is 86% with an average delay of 14 minutes, based on 317 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Amarillo-Houston is 3.47% across 317 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: United Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
