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Route Reliability

Dallas → Fort Lauderdale

DAL–FLL · 1,108 miles · Dallas Love Field to Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport

65
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
66%
Arrive within 15 minutes
16 min
Average arrival delay
1.3%
Cancelled
598
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 66% of the time across 598 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

DAL–FLL flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 82% of the time, versus 42% between 6–9 PM.

Thursdays have been rough.

DAL–FLL flights arrived on time 74% of the time on Tuesdays and just 58% on Thursdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

DAL–FLL flights arrived on time 55% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 72% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon70%(83 flights)
  • Tue74%(66 flights)
  • Wed73%(66 flights)
  • Thu58%(84 flights)
  • Fri63%(82 flights)
  • Sat64%(118 flights)
  • Sun62%(90 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM82%(159 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM82%(71 flights)
  • 12–3 PM71%(154 flights)
  • 3–6 PM48%(61 flights)
  • 6–9 PM42%(144 flights)
On-time trend by month
48%
May

Jun 70% → May 48% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202570%64
July 202563%64
August 202561%38
September 202579%34
October 202575%48
November 202569%39
December 202558%40
January 202678%40
February 202682%49
March 202658%67
April 202657%54
May 202648%52

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Based on 598 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.