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Route Reliability

Dallas → Chicago

DAL–ORD · 798 miles · Dallas Love Field to Chicago O'Hare International Airport

72
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
72%
Arrive within 15 minutes
13 min
Average arrival delay
0.8%
Cancelled
622
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 72% of the time across 622 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

DAL–ORD flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 85% of the time, versus 56% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

DAL–ORD flights arrived on time 79% of the time on Tuesdays and just 58% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

DAL–ORD flights arrived on time 69% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 88% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon79%(93 flights)
  • Tue79%(86 flights)
  • Wed78%(87 flights)
  • Thu70%(95 flights)
  • Fri68%(93 flights)
  • Sat70%(71 flights)
  • Sun58%(88 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM85%(171 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM85%(150 flights)
  • 12–3 PM59%(142 flights)
  • 3–6 PM—(1 flights)
  • 6–9 PM56%(149 flights)
On-time trend by month
60%
May

Jun 63% → May 60% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202563%86
July 202564%88
August 202563%75
September 202581%73
October 202571%86
November 202585%27
December 202587%30
January 202681%31
February 202696%28
March 202679%29
April 202667%30
May 202660%30

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 622 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.