Flights El Paso → Houston
ELP → HOU
Route overview
The flight route from El Paso to Houston operates with a Boeing 737-500 and has an on-time performance rate of 83%, with an average delay of 7 minutes. Over the course of a year, this route sees approximately 256 flights, serving one of the busiest airports in terms of passenger traffic, which handles nearly 13.9 million 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 El Paso (ELP) → Houston (HOU) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 339 flights monitored in recent months, 84% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 7 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.88%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 18.6/100 (medium), 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 El Paso the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Houston: what to expect in this direction
Flying from El Paso (ELP) to Houston (HOU) heads east for about 1,087 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 47m.
Departures from El Paso on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 65% of ELP-HOU flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing El Paso the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Houston it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 339 tracked ELP-HOU flights, 84% left on time with an average delay of 7 min and a 0.9% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about ELP-HOU
On the El Paso (ELP) -> Houston (HOU) route, on-time performance is 84% with an average delay of 7 minutes, based on 339 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on El Paso-Houston is 0.88% across 339 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Southwest 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.
