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Route Reliability

Birmingham → Dallas

BHM–DAL · 587 miles · Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport to Dallas Love Field

84
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
82%
Arrive within 15 minutes
2 min
Average arrival delay
0.9%
Cancelled
973
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 82% of the time across 973 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

BHM–DAL flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 95% of the time, versus 64% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

BHM–DAL flights arrived on time 90% of the time on Tuesdays and just 74% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

BHM–DAL flights arrived on time 78% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 87% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon80%(152 flights)
  • Tue90%(135 flights)
  • Wed88%(137 flights)
  • Thu78%(151 flights)
  • Fri85%(152 flights)
  • Sat75%(91 flights)
  • Sun74%(140 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM95%(128 flights)
  • 6–9 AM92%(215 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM91%(97 flights)
  • 12–3 PM83%(171 flights)
  • 3–6 PM70%(157 flights)
  • 6–9 PM64%(167 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM78%(23 flights)
On-time trend by month
76%
May

Jun 75% → May 76% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202575%81
July 202580%81
August 202582%74
September 202593%73
October 202579%80
November 202577%86
December 202587%91
January 202688%68
February 202686%66
March 202677%87
April 202682%85
May 202676%86

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Based on 973 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.