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Route Reliability

Dallas → Tucson

DALTUS · 824 miles · Dallas Love Field to Tucson International Airport

81
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
74%
Arrive within 15 minutes
8 min
Average arrival delay
0.4%
Cancelled
224
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 74% of the time across 224 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

The 12–3 PM departure wins.

DAL–TUS flights departing between 12–3 PM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 35% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

DAL–TUS flights arrived on time 89% of the time on Tuesdays and just 67% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

DAL–TUS flights arrived on time 58% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 81% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon80%(35 flights)
  • Tue89%(27 flights)
  • Wed82%(27 flights)
  • Thu68%(34 flights)
  • Fri71%(35 flights)
  • Sat69%(29 flights)
  • Sun67%(36 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 12–3 PM92%(66 flights)
  • 3–6 PM73%(135 flights)
  • 6–9 PM35%(17 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM(5 flights)
On-time trend by month
39%
May

Oct 89% → May 39% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
October 202589%26
November 202579%28
December 202581%31
January 202683%30
February 202679%28
March 202684%31
April 202650%22
May 202639%23

Based on 224 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.