Flights Houston → Austin
HOU → AUS
Route overview
The flight route from Houston to Austin operates with a high frequency of 335 flights, utilizing Boeing 737-500 and Boeing 737-300 aircraft. With a 75% on-time performance rate and an average delay of 10 minutes, the service maintains reasonable punctuality despite serving one of the busiest airports in terms of annual passenger traffic at 21,089,289 passengers per year.
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 Houston (HOU) → Austin (AUS) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 478 flights monitored in recent months, 76% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 11 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.63%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 20.3/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Austin the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Houston the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Austin: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Houston (HOU) to Austin (AUS) heads west for about 238 km, a flight time of roughly 43m.
Departures from Houston on this leg cluster in the midday window: about 38% of HOU-AUS flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Houston the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Austin it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 478 tracked HOU-AUS flights, 76% left on time with an average delay of 11 min and a 0.6% 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 HOU-AUS
On the Houston (HOU) -> Austin (AUS) route, on-time performance is 76% with an average delay of 11 minutes, based on 478 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Houston-Austin is 0.63% across 478 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.
