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Route Reliability

Dallas → Oakland

DAL–OAK · 1,468 miles · Dallas Love Field to Oakland International Airport

66
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
65%
Arrive within 15 minutes
17 min
Average arrival delay
1.1%
Cancelled
471
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 471 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

DAL–OAK flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 88% of the time, versus 50% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

DAL–OAK flights arrived on time 74% of the time on Fridays and just 57% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

DAL–OAK flights arrived on time 61% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 68% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon60%(62 flights)
  • Tue71%(58 flights)
  • Wed68%(60 flights)
  • Thu62%(61 flights)
  • Fri74%(61 flights)
  • Sat69%(68 flights)
  • Sun57%(96 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM88%(74 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM87%(39 flights)
  • 12–3 PM69%(49 flights)
  • 3–6 PM71%(78 flights)
  • 6–9 PM50%(182 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM59%(44 flights)
On-time trend by month
51%
May

Jun 61% → May 51% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202561%61
July 202567%61
August 202571%38
September 202582%34
October 202555%31
November 202563%35
December 202562%37
January 202681%32
February 202661%31
March 202665%31
April 202667%36
May 202651%39

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 471 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.