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Route Reliability

Dallas → Long Beach

DAL–LGB · 1,232 miles · Dallas Love Field to Long Beach Airport

78
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
76%
Arrive within 15 minutes
9 min
Average arrival delay
1.4%
Cancelled
562
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 76% of the time across 562 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

DAL–LGB flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 93% of the time, versus 64% between 6–9 PM.

Saturdays have been rough.

DAL–LGB flights arrived on time 85% of the time on Tuesdays and just 70% on Saturdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

DAL–LGB flights arrived on time 64% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 80% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon74%(83 flights)
  • Tue85%(81 flights)
  • Wed77%(82 flights)
  • Thu75%(81 flights)
  • Fri77%(81 flights)
  • Sat70%(60 flights)
  • Sun72%(86 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM86%(104 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM93%(80 flights)
  • 12–3 PM84%(64 flights)
  • 3–6 PM70%(125 flights)
  • 6–9 PM64%(181 flights)
On-time trend by month
40%
May

Jun 72% → May 40% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202572%60
July 202567%60
August 202584%57
September 202582%56
October 202576%53
November 202585%52
December 202588%57
January 202688%33
February 202664%28
March 202687%31
April 202666%32
May 202640%35

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 562 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.