Flights Houston → Los Angeles
HOU → LAX
Route overview
This flight route operates between Houston and Los Angeles, using Boeing 737-800 aircraft. With a total of 261 flights recorded, the route has an on-time performance rate of 66%, with an average delay of 16.7 minutes per delayed flight. The destination airport in Los Angeles, which opened in 1926, serves over 76 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 Houston (HOU) → Los Angeles (LAX) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 352 flights monitored in recent months, 67% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 17 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.00%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 23/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Los Angeles the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Houston the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Los Angeles: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Houston (HOU) to Los Angeles (LAX) heads west for about 2,233 km, a flight time of roughly 3h 13m.
Departures from Houston on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 37% of HOU-LAX flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Houston the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Los Angeles it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 352 tracked HOU-LAX flights, 67% left on time with an average delay of 17 min and a 0.0% 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-LAX
On the Houston (HOU) -> Los Angeles (LAX) route, on-time performance is 67% with an average delay of 17 minutes, based on 352 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Houston-Los Angeles is 0.00% across 352 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.
