LAX to AUS flight delays
Los Angeles, CA (LAX) Austin, TX (AUS) · 1,242 miles
359 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
72.63%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.28%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
59 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
17 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. SkyWest Airlines arrived on time 11.9 points more often than Delta Air Lines over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.
This is a thin route — 359 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.
Flights from Los Angeles to Austin run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, SkyWest Airlines arrived on time most often on LAX to AUS. Delta Air Lines was late most often.
Every airline on LAX to AUS
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 117 | 88.03% | 0% | 60 min | A |
| Delta Air Lines | 113 | 76.11% | 0% | 56 min | C |
| Southwest Airlines | 99 | 54.08% | 1.01% | 56 min | — |
| American Airlines | 30 | 60% | 0% | 74 min | — |
The return leg
AUS to LAX Austin back to Los Angeles 75.42% on time COther routes from Los Angeles
Common questions
Are flights from Los Angeles to Austin usually delayed?
72.63% of flights on the LAX to AUS route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Los Angeles to Austin?
SkyWest Airlines, at 88.03% on time across 117 flights. The least punctual on the route was Delta Air Lines at 76.11%.
How often are LAX to AUS flights cancelled?
0.28% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 3 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
When LAX to AUS flights are late, how late are they?
About 59 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on LAX to AUS during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →