Flights Las Vegas → Columbus
LAS → CMH
Route overview
The flight route from Las Vegas to Columbus has a punctuality rate of 67%, with an average delay of 18.5 minutes per flight. Over the past year, there have been 225 flights on this route, serving the busy McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas and arriving at John Glenn Columbus International Airport, which opened in 1929 and currently handles over seven 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 Las Vegas (LAS) → Columbus (CMH) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 307 flights monitored in recent months, 72% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 16 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.65%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 21.2/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Columbus the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Las Vegas the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Columbus: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Las Vegas (LAS) to Columbus (CMH) heads east for about 2,843 km, a flight time of roughly 3h 58m.
Departures from Las Vegas on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 49% of LAS-CMH flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Las Vegas the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Columbus it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 307 tracked LAS-CMH flights, 72% left on time with an average delay of 16 min and a 0.7% 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 LAS-CMH
On the Las Vegas (LAS) -> Columbus (CMH) route, on-time performance is 72% with an average delay of 16 minutes, based on 307 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Las Vegas-Columbus is 0.65% across 307 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.
