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Route Reliability

Dallas → New York

DAL–LGA · 1,381 miles · Dallas Love Field to LaGuardia Airport

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A Little Dicey
WanderNerd Reliability Score
65%
Arrive within 15 minutes
22 min
Average arrival delay
3.0%
Cancelled
1,492
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 65% of the time across 1,492 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

DAL–LGA flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 89% of the time, versus 36% between 6–9 PM.

Thursdays have been rough.

DAL–LGA flights arrived on time 75% of the time on Saturdays and just 52% on Thursdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Keep a backup plan handy.

This route was cancelled 3.0% of the time. Typical for U.S. flights is around 1–2%.

Recent months have been rougher.

DAL–LGA flights arrived on time 51% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 70% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon65%(208 flights)
  • Tue68%(215 flights)
  • Wed74%(212 flights)
  • Thu52%(215 flights)
  • Fri66%(218 flights)
  • Sat75%(149 flights)
  • Sun59%(216 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM89%(449 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM68%(274 flights)
  • 12–3 PM57%(293 flights)
  • 3–6 PM45%(317 flights)
  • 6–9 PM36%(100 flights)
On-time trend by month
53%
May

Jun 54% → May 53% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202554%112
July 202571%112
August 202577%117
September 202584%115
October 202572%116
November 202564%118
December 202560%131
January 202684%112
February 202668%97
March 202642%125
April 202658%140
May 202653%138

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 1,492 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.