Flights Las Vegas → Houston
LAS → HOU
Route overview
The flight route from Las Vegas to Houston operates with a Boeing 737-800 aircraft and has an on-time performance rate of 73%, with average delays of 12.6 minutes. With nearly five hundred flights annually, this route serves one of the busiest airports in terms of passenger traffic, handling over thirteen million passengers per year at its destination.
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) → Houston (HOU) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 660 flights monitored in recent months, 72% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 12 minutes. The cancellation rate is 0.15%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 23.8/100 (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 Las Vegas the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Houston: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Las Vegas (LAS) to Houston (HOU) heads east for about 1,985 km, a flight time of roughly 2h 54m.
Departures from Las Vegas on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 37% of LAS-HOU flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Las Vegas the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Houston it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 660 tracked LAS-HOU flights, 72% left on time with an average delay of 12 min and a 0.1% 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-HOU
On the Las Vegas (LAS) -> Houston (HOU) route, on-time performance is 72% with an average delay of 12 minutes, based on 660 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Las Vegas-Houston is 0.15% across 660 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.
