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Route Reliability

Dallas → Raleigh–Durham

DAL–RDU · 1,052 miles · Dallas Love Field to Raleigh–Durham International Airport

72
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
71%
Arrive within 15 minutes
12 min
Average arrival delay
1.6%
Cancelled
438
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 71% of the time across 438 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

DAL–RDU flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 89% of the time, versus 59% between 6–9 PM.

Thursdays have been rough.

DAL–RDU flights arrived on time 80% of the time on Sundays and just 55% on Thursdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

DAL–RDU flights arrived on time 63% 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%(57 flights)
  • Tue80%(54 flights)
  • Wed70%(53 flights)
  • Thu55%(55 flights)
  • Fri68%(59 flights)
  • Sat71%(63 flights)
  • Sun80%(90 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM89%(28 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM89%(72 flights)
  • 12–3 PM69%(164 flights)
  • 3–6 PM63%(139 flights)
  • 6–9 PM59%(27 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM—(1 flights)
On-time trend by month
53%
May

Jun 80% → May 53% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202580%39
July 202569%39
August 202572%36
September 202579%34
October 202563%35
November 202574%46
December 202585%46
January 202681%31
February 202652%27
March 202668%31
April 202670%33
May 202653%34

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 438 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.