Route Reliability
Dayton → Denver
DAY–DEN · 1,085 miles · Dayton International Airport to Denver International Airport
96
Nerd Approved
WanderNerd Reliability Score
- 91%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 8 min early
- Average arrival delay
- 0.8%
- Cancelled
- 365
- Flights in the data
Data through May 2026.
United Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 91% of the time across 365 flights. No comparison to make.
What the data says
Departure time hasn't mattered much.
On-time rates stay between 91% and 92% across the day.
Thursday comes out ahead.
A small edge: 94% on time on Thursdays against 88% on Mondays.
Trending in the right direction.
DAY–DEN flights arrived on time 97% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 87% in the three months before that.
Flights on this route
The breakdown
- Mon88%(51 flights)
- Tue89%(52 flights)
- Wed90%(51 flights)
- Thu94%(52 flights)
- Fri92%(52 flights)
- Sat92%(52 flights)
- Sun94%(52 flights)
- 6–9 AM91%(136 flights)
- 9 AM–12 PM92%(226 flights)
97%
May
Jun 90% → May 97% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 90% | 30 |
| July 2025 | 90% | 31 |
| August 2025 | 87% | 31 |
| September 2025 | 97% | 30 |
| October 2025 | 97% | 31 |
| November 2025 | 87% | 30 |
| December 2025 | 74% | 31 |
| January 2026 | 93% | 29 |
| February 2026 | 93% | 28 |
| March 2026 | 94% | 31 |
| April 2026 | 100% | 30 |
| May 2026 | 97% | 30 |
Keep nerding
Based on 365 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.