Route Reliability
Birmingham → Detroit
BHM–DTW · 625 miles · Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
- 80%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 13 min
- Average arrival delay
- 1.4%
- Cancelled
- 807
- Flights in the data
Data through May 2026.
Airlines on this route
- Delta Air Lines80% on time · 783 flights
- Spirit Airlines61% on time · 24 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.
BHM–DTW flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 88% of the time, versus 70% between 3–6 PM.
Friday is doing you no favors.
BHM–DTW flights arrived on time 90% of the time on Saturdays and just 72% on Fridays. That gap is worth planning around.
Ticking up lately.
BHM–DTW flights arrived on time 77% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 70% 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
- Mon74%(131 flights)
- Tue86%(111 flights)
- Wed80%(111 flights)
- Thu83%(121 flights)
- Fri72%(127 flights)
- Sat90%(77 flights)
- Sun78%(116 flights)
- 6–9 AM88%(324 flights)
- 9 AM–12 PM81%(154 flights)
- 12–3 PM74%(27 flights)
- 3–6 PM70%(289 flights)
Jun 76% → May 83% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 76% | 83 |
| July 2025 | 74% | 89 |
| August 2025 | 77% | 96 |
| September 2025 | 87% | 76 |
| October 2025 | 94% | 87 |
| November 2025 | 89% | 53 |
| December 2025 | 81% | 47 |
| January 2026 | 52% | 33 |
| February 2026 | 79% | 42 |
| March 2026 | 67% | 51 |
| April 2026 | 82% | 56 |
| May 2026 | 83% | 81 |
Keep nerding
Based on 807 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.