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Airport Reliability

DAL · Dallas

Dallas Love Field

71%
Departures within 15 minutes
16 min
Average departure delay
79%
Arrivals within 15 minutes
1.4%
Departures cancelled

Based on 70,731 departures and 70,727 arrivals. Data through May 2026.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

Departures from DAL departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 91% of the time, versus 57% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

Departures from DAL arrived on time 81% of the time on Tuesdays. On Sundays: 71%.

Recent months have been rougher.

Departures from DAL arrived on time 69% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 81% in the three months before that.

When DAL gets messy

On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM84%(89 flights)
  • 6–9 AM91%(14066 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM84%(13119 flights)
  • 12–3 PM75%(13080 flights)
  • 3–6 PM66%(12763 flights)
  • 6–9 PM61%(12243 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM57%(4220 flights)
On-time by weekday
  • Mon75%(10377 flights)
  • Tue81%(9773 flights)
  • Wed78%(9749 flights)
  • Thu71%(10314 flights)
  • Fri74%(10353 flights)
  • Sat75%(8468 flights)
  • Sun71%(10546 flights)
On-time trend by month
66%
May

Jun 65% → May 66% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202565%6111
July 202570%6241
August 202577%5680
September 202583%5501
October 202577%6044
November 202577%5635
December 202580%6037
January 202684%5155
February 202681%5111
March 202671%6131
April 202672%5914
May 202666%6020

Airlines departing DAL

Busiest routes from DAL

Based on 70,731 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.