Route profile
ATL→OMA
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Atlanta to Omaha, 821 miles.
Right now
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 73% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 5,979 flights. How this is calculated
ATL → OMA arrives on time 81.9% of the time; the return trip, OMA → ATL, arrives on time 87.1% of the time, a 5.2-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
ATL → OMA spends 20.1 minutes on the ground on an 821-mile trip: 14.8 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at ATL and 5.3 minutes from touchdown to gate at OMA.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What stands out
This route has stayed remarkably steady year over year, a smaller swing than 93% of 5,368 comparable routes.
80.4% on time over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), against 80.0% in the 12 months before (2024-08 to 2025-07), virtually unchanged.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 5,368 in the comparison.
What sets this route apart
Where ATL to OMA differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
ATL to OMA is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 5 PM: 84.1% arrive on time, 17.1 points ahead of the 67.0% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 14.3 points.
ATL to OMA holds up on Wednesdays better than routes of similar length do: 86.5% on time to their 80.2%, a 6.3 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 5.7 points.
September is kinder to ATL to OMA than to routes of similar length: 90.9% on time against 82.2%, 8.7 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 8.5 points.
ATL to OMA against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 5 PM departures | 84.1% | routes of similar length | 67.0% | +17.1 pts | 145 here, 132,452 there |
| Weekday: Wednesday | 86.5% | routes of similar length | 80.2% | +6.3 pts | 835 here, 314,913 there |
| Month: September | 90.9% | routes of similar length | 82.2% | +8.7 pts | 482 here, 179,304 there |
Each comparison pools the flights of other routes, with this route’s own left out. Similar length means within 15% of this route’s 821 miles, with at least 5 such routes. A bucket is set against the most comparable group that has enough flights: similar length, then the same origin (at least 3 routes), then all other routes. Hours, weekdays and months appear only where both sides have 120 completed flights, and airlines where both have 600. The gap must be at least 2 points and 2 standard errors, and only the largest gap each way is kept per measure. These are differences in the flights counted, not causes.
Why ATL → OMA flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
ATL → OMA cancelled 62 of 5,979 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 96. The reason filed most often was the airline, 58.1% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 166 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 62 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.
What each reason means
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
36 cancellations, 58.1% of the total.
Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.
23 cancellations, 37.1% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
3 cancellations, 4.8% of the total.
A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.
0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.
Reason codes are the operating airline’s own filing with US DOT, not an independent finding of fault. With only one or two carriers on the route, the split mostly reflects how they file. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.
62 coded cancellations were recorded on ATL → OMA; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
35 min late
against a median of 7 min early
Percentiles over 5,979 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at OMA after arriving from ATL.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 31% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 18% | High risk |
| 60 min | 11% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 5.6% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 3.4% | Low risk |
This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 1.04% of the time and diverts 0.28% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 5,900 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.
The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 35 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 5,979 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
ATL → OMA flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 89.9% of the time, against 74.9% for 9 PM–5 AM departures, a gap of 15.0 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 7 AM: too few flights to score
- 8 AM: 90.1% on time from 998 flights
- 9 AM: 83.0% on time from 256 flights
- 10 AM: too few flights to score
- 11 AM: 88.3% on time from 230 flights
- 12 PM: 85.2% on time from 681 flights
- 1 PM: 89.5% on time from 383 flights
- 2 PM: too few flights to score
- 3 PM: 75.2% on time from 290 flights
- 4 PM: 76.9% on time from 735 flights
- 5 PM: 84.1% on time from 146 flights
- 6 PM: too few flights to score
- 7 PM: 78.0% on time from 677 flights
- 8 PM: 78.1% on time from 194 flights
- 9 PM: too few flights to score
- 10 PM: 76.5% on time from 997 flights
- 11 PM: too few flights to score
Why ATL → OMA runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for ATL → OMA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Airlines on this route
Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.
| Carrier | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 5,391 | 81.9% | 1.11% | -8 min | 5.8% |
| Southwest Airlines | 523 | 84.6% | 0.38% | -6 min | 3.5% |
Delta Air Lines flew 91.2% of the 5,914 flights listed.
Southwest Airlines arrived on time 2.7 percentage points more often than Delta Air Lines on this route.
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
DL1125 (12:59 PM) arrived on time 87.6% of the time, 11.6 points more often than DL2707 (7:05 PM) at 76.0%.
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Thursday the least, a gap of 7.4 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 79.3%
- Feb: 87.7%
- Mar: 81.7%
- Apr: 82.9%
- May: 73.8%
- Jun: 77.7%
- Jul: 70.9%
- Aug: 78.3%
- Sep: 90.9%
- Oct: 87.9%
- Nov: 90.0%
- Dec: 84.0%
July is historically the weakest month and September the strongest, a spread of 20.0 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 82.3% from 179 flights
- August 2023: 76.8% from 179 flights
- September 2023: 91.0% from 188 flights
- October 2023: 90.2% from 194 flights
- November 2023: 95.2% from 189 flights
- December 2023: 95.5% from 202 flights
- January 2024: 81.8% from 167 flights
- February 2024: 93.3% from 163 flights
- March 2024: 83.4% from 181 flights
- April 2024: 88.5% from 176 flights
- May 2024: 68.9% from 181 flights
- June 2024: 82.5% from 167 flights
- July 2024: 63.6% from 167 flights
- August 2024: 80.4% from 165 flights
- September 2024: 90.4% from 157 flights
- October 2024: 89.4% from 162 flights
- November 2024: 89.2% from 157 flights
- December 2024: 81.3% from 167 flights
- January 2025: 76.1% from 142 flights
- February 2025: 85.9% from 142 flights
- March 2025: 82.9% from 174 flights
- April 2025: 77.5% from 152 flights
- May 2025: 73.8% from 149 flights
- June 2025: 64.7% from 144 flights
- July 2025: 65.0% from 147 flights
- August 2025: 77.8% from 144 flights
- September 2025: 91.2% from 137 flights
- October 2025: 83.6% from 152 flights
- November 2025: 83.9% from 146 flights
- December 2025: 71.7% from 159 flights
- January 2026: 79.6% from 147 flights
- February 2026: 83.1% from 142 flights
- March 2026: 78.2% from 160 flights
- April 2026: 81.9% from 153 flights
- May 2026: 80.0% from 149 flights
- June 2026: 84.5% from 148 flights
- July 2026: 70.7% from 151 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 80.4% against 80.0% in the 12 months before — broadly unchanged.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 5,979 ATL → OMA flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.
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