Flights Lake Charles → Houston
LCH → IAH
Route overview
The flight route from Lake Charles to Houston operates with a high level of punctuality, achieving an on-time performance rate of 88%. Over the course of a year, this route sees 207 flights, each averaging a delay of just 10.8 minutes, serving one of the busiest airports in terms of annual passenger traffic at 40,979,422 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 Lake Charles (LCH) → Houston (IAH) route is operated by United Airlines. Across 261 flights monitored in recent months, 88% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 9 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.92%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 26.4/100 (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 Lake Charles the average ATFM delay is 4.7 minutes.
Heading to Houston: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Lake Charles (LCH) to Houston (IAH) heads west for about 204 km, a flight time of roughly 41m.
Departures from Lake Charles on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 58% of LCH-IAH flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Lake Charles the average ATFM delay is 4.7 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into Houston it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 261 tracked LCH-IAH flights, 88% left on time with an average delay of 9 min and a 1.9% 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 LCH-IAH
On the Lake Charles (LCH) -> Houston (IAH) route, on-time performance is 88% with an average delay of 9 minutes, based on 261 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Lake Charles-Houston is 1.92% across 261 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.
