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Route Reliability

Dallas → Seattle

DALSEA · 1,670 miles · Dallas Love Field to Seattle–Tacoma International Airport

73
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
71%
Arrive within 15 minutes
14 min
Average arrival delay
0.9%
Cancelled
216
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 216 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

DAL–SEA flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 74% of the time, versus 60% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

DAL–SEA flights arrived on time 79% of the time on Tuesdays and just 63% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Trending in the right direction.

DAL–SEA flights arrived on time 77% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 66% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon76%(29 flights)
  • Tue79%(28 flights)
  • Wed76%(29 flights)
  • Thu67%(30 flights)
  • Fri67%(30 flights)
  • Sat68%(38 flights)
  • Sun63%(30 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM74%(80 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM73%(74 flights)
  • 12–3 PM(2 flights)
  • 6–9 PM60%(50 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM(8 flights)
On-time trend by month
81%
May

Jun 63% → May 81% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202563%30
July 202564%33
August 202572%32
September 202563%30
March 202670%27
April 202680%30
May 202681%31

Based on 216 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.