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Route Reliability

Birmingham → Detroit

BHMDTW · 625 miles · Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

80
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
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

On-time by weekday
  • Mon74%(131 flights)
  • Tue86%(111 flights)
  • Wed80%(111 flights)
  • Thu83%(121 flights)
  • Fri72%(127 flights)
  • Sat90%(77 flights)
  • Sun78%(116 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM88%(324 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM81%(154 flights)
  • 12–3 PM74%(27 flights)
  • 3–6 PM70%(289 flights)
On-time trend by month
83%
May

Jun 76% → May 83% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202576%83
July 202574%89
August 202577%96
September 202587%76
October 202594%87
November 202589%53
December 202581%47
January 202652%33
February 202679%42
March 202667%51
April 202682%56
May 202683%81

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.