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LCH vs IAH - 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
LCH

Lake Charles, LA

Lake Charles, Louisiana

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Airport B
IAH

Houston, TX

Houston, Texas

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Key Performance Metrics

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

Metric LCH IAH
On-Time Rate (higher is better) 86.1% 81.6%
Avg Delay (lower is better) 100.7 min 79.8 min
Delay Rate (lower is better) 13.9% 18.4%
Cancellation Rate (lower is better) 2.35% 1.13%
Total Flights 13,543 1,404,392
Delayed Flights 1,879 258,419
Cancelled Flights 318 15,858
Top Delay Cause Carrier Carrier

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

Delay Cause Breakdown

LCH - Lake Charles, LA

Carrier 44.9%
Weather 21.8%
Late Aircraft 19.9%
NAS 13.3%
Security 0.0%

IAH - Houston, TX

Carrier 38.4%
Late Aircraft 34.9%
NAS 18.1%
Weather 8.6%
Security 0.0%

Top Routes

Top routes from LCH

Route Flights On-Time
DFW → LCH
Lake Charles
5,955 85.4%
LCH → DFW
Dallas/Fort Worth
5,950 82.1%
IAH → LCH
Lake Charles
633 91.3%
LCH → IAH
Houston
631 91.8%

Top routes from IAH

Route Flights On-Time
IAH → DFW
Dallas/Fort Worth
30,197 76.6%
DFW → IAH
Houston
30,188 76.3%
IAH → LAX
Los Angeles
28,113 83.4%
LAX → IAH
Houston
28,102 86.2%
IAH → DEN
Denver
27,947 80%
IAH → ORD
Chicago
27,946 81%

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.