Best airline from Atlanta to San Antonio

Most punctual on this route

B
Southwest Airlines

80.98% on time across 900 flights · 0.44% cancelled

Delta Air Lines is close enough behind (79.04%) that the two are effectively tied — pick on schedule and price.

Every airline on ATL to SAT, ranked

# Airline Flights On time Cancelled Grade
1 Southwest Airlines 900 80.98% 0.44% B
2 Delta Air Lines 4,968 79.04% 1.53% C
3 Spirit Airlines 91 74.73% 0%
4 Frontier Airlines 105 66.02% 1.9% F

Why this is worth checking per route

An airline's overall punctuality is an average across everywhere it flies, and averages hide the thing you are booking. A carrier can be middling nationally and the best option on this particular pair of airports — because of which slots it holds, what time of day it schedules, and which aircraft feeds the flight.

On ATL to SAT the spread between best and worst is 15 points. Both carriers fly the same corridor, into the same weather and the same air traffic control — so a gap that size is a fact about the airlines, not the route.

Punctuality is one dimension of a good airline and not the one most people would name first. It is, though, the only one measured the same way for everybody and published by someone with no stake in the answer. Full ATL to SAT record → · Best time of year to fly it →