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Route Reliability

Austin → Detroit

AUSDTW · 1,149 miles · Austin–Bergstrom International Airport to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

89
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
87%
Arrive within 15 minutes
5 min
Average arrival delay
1.3%
Cancelled
1,347
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Delta Air Lines88% on time · 1,283 flights
  • Spirit Airlines73% on time · 64 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

AUS–DTW flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 95% of the time, versus 80% between 3–6 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

AUS–DTW flights arrived on time 93% of the time on Tuesdays. On Sundays: 84%.

Ticking up lately.

AUS–DTW flights arrived on time 89% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 86% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon85%(203 flights)
  • Tue93%(187 flights)
  • Wed90%(186 flights)
  • Thu85%(197 flights)
  • Fri85%(203 flights)
  • Sat90%(154 flights)
  • Sun84%(196 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM95%(359 flights)
  • 6–9 AM92%(272 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM83%(63 flights)
  • 12–3 PM83%(326 flights)
  • 3–6 PM80%(305 flights)
  • 6–9 PM(1 flights)
On-time trend by month
91%
May

Jun 83% → May 91% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202583%125
July 202582%129
August 202592%129
September 202596%116
October 202582%121
November 202586%107
December 202589%105
January 202682%74
February 202687%78
March 202687%111
April 202691%116
May 202691%115

Based on 1,347 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.