Flights Mcallen → Houston
MFE → IAH
Route overview
The flight route from Mcallen to Houston has an on-time performance rate of 89%, with an average delay of 5.3 minutes per flight. Over the course of a year, this route sees 478 flights, serving one of the busiest airports in terms of annual passenger traffic, which handles approximately 40,979,422 passengers yearly.
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 Mcallen (MFE) → Houston (IAH) route is operated by United Airlines. Across 690 flights monitored in recent months, 88% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 8 minutes. The cancellation rate is 3.04%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 28.6/100 (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 Mcallen the average ATFM delay is 2.3 minutes.
Heading to Houston: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Mcallen (MFE) to Houston (IAH) heads north-east for about 510 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 3m.
Departures from Mcallen on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 50% of MFE-IAH flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Mcallen the average ATFM delay is 2.3 min (airspace/NAS (BTS)); arriving into Houston it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 690 tracked MFE-IAH flights, 88% left on time with an average delay of 8 min and a 3.0% 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 MFE-IAH
On the Mcallen (MFE) -> Houston (IAH) route, on-time performance is 88% with an average delay of 8 minutes, based on 690 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Mcallen-Houston is 3.04% across 690 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.
