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Route Reliability

Dallas → Boston

DAL–BOS · 1,554 miles · Dallas Love Field to Boston Logan International Airport

64
A Little Dicey
WanderNerd Reliability Score
64%
Arrive within 15 minutes
20 min
Average arrival delay
0.8%
Cancelled
257
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 64% of the time across 257 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

DAL–BOS flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 87% of the time, versus 41% between 3–6 PM.

Thursdays have been rough.

DAL–BOS flights arrived on time 72% of the time on Saturdays and just 54% on Thursdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Trending in the right direction.

DAL–BOS flights arrived on time 85% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 65% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon62%(39 flights)
  • Tue63%(27 flights)
  • Wed68%(25 flights)
  • Thu54%(37 flights)
  • Fri63%(43 flights)
  • Sat72%(39 flights)
  • Sun67%(45 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM87%(93 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM75%(36 flights)
  • 12–3 PM44%(86 flights)
  • 3–6 PM41%(27 flights)
  • 6–9 PM46%(13 flights)
On-time trend by month
87%
May

Jun 41% → May 87% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202541%27
July 202552%31
August 202574%23
September 202520%20
October 202540%30
November 202594%18
December 202560%15
March 202685%26
April 202683%30
May 202687%31

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 257 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.