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HOU vs ELP - Airport Comparison

Select two airports to compare on-time performance, delays, cancellations, and top routes using U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) data (2020–2025) across all 50 states. See our methodology for how metrics are computed.

Airport A
HOU

Houston, TX

Houston, Texas

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Airport B
ELP

El Paso, TX

El Paso, Texas

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Key Performance Metrics

BTS on-time performance data, 2020–2025 cumulative.

Metric HOU ELP
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 79.4% 81.4%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 58.6 min 71.0 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 20.6% 18.6%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 1.25% 0.98%
Total Flights 618,821 186,225
Delayed Flights 127,699 34,595
Cancelled Flights 7,742 1,832
Top Delay Cause Late Aircraft Late Aircraft

✓ / ▲ indicates the more favorable value. Data: BTS On-Time Performance, 2020–2025.

Delay Cause Breakdown

HOU - Houston, TX

Late Aircraft 44.4%
Carrier 34.9%
NAS 15.9%
Weather 4.5%
Security 0.4%

ELP - El Paso, TX

Late Aircraft 45.4%
Carrier 35.0%
NAS 14.2%
Weather 5.2%
Security 0.1%

Top Routes

Top routes from HOU

Route Flights On-Time
DAL → HOU
Houston
23,563 80.6%
HOU → DAL
Dallas
23,517 82.5%
HOU → ATL
Atlanta
18,651 85.3%
ATL → HOU
Houston
18,589 83.6%
DEN → HOU
Houston
14,920 77.4%
HOU → DEN
Denver
14,913 81.6%

Top routes from ELP

Route Flights On-Time
ELP → DFW
Dallas/Fort Worth
16,187 80.5%
DFW → ELP
El Paso
16,178 73.4%
PHX → ELP
El Paso
14,470 81.9%
ELP → PHX
Phoenix
14,437 85.7%
DAL → ELP
El Paso
9,227 78.3%
ELP → DAL
Dallas
9,181 85%

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), On-Time Performance Data (2020–2025) On-time rates exclude cancelled and diverted flights. PlainFlights is not affiliated with BTS or the DOT

Every figure on PlainFlights is rendered directly from BTS On-Time Performance data, no number is typed in by an editor. This tool queries live on-time, delay, and cancellation figures for the two selected airports from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.