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Route Reliability

Dallas–Fort Worth → Chicago

DFW–MDW · 797 miles · Dallas Fort Worth International Airport to Chicago Midway International Airport

65
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
71%
Arrive within 15 minutes
19 min
Average arrival delay
1.7%
Cancelled
292
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Frontier Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 71% of the time across 292 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

DFW–MDW flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 89% of the time, versus 43% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

DFW–MDW flights arrived on time 83% of the time on Fridays and just 57% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

DFW–MDW flights arrived on time 55% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 79% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon71%(56 flights)
  • Tue58%(19 flights)
  • Wed80%(20 flights)
  • Thu77%(47 flights)
  • Fri83%(58 flights)
  • Sat64%(36 flights)
  • Sun57%(49 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM89%(28 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM76%(123 flights)
  • 12–3 PM75%(44 flights)
  • 3–6 PM—(4 flights)
  • 6–9 PM65%(49 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM43%(37 flights)
On-time trend by month
75%
May

Jun 73% → May 75% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202573%26
July 202574%31
August 202575%24
September 202586%28
October 202573%33
November 202563%30
December 202574%19
January 202675%12
February 202688%16
March 202640%20
April 202650%18
May 202675%28

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 292 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.