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Route Reliability

Dallas–Fort Worth → Fort Myers

DFWRSW · 1,017 miles · Dallas Fort Worth International Airport to Southwest Florida International Airport

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A Little Dicey
WanderNerd Reliability Score
66%
Arrive within 15 minutes
21 min
Average arrival delay
2.9%
Cancelled
1,391
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • American Airlines66% on time · 1,389 flights
  • Frontier Airlines100% on time · 2 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

DFW–RSW flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 79% of the time, versus 56% between 3–6 PM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

DFW–RSW flights arrived on time 76% of the time on Tuesdays and just 59% on Fridays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

DFW–RSW flights arrived on time 65% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 72% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon62%(192 flights)
  • Tue76%(184 flights)
  • Wed68%(179 flights)
  • Thu68%(205 flights)
  • Fri59%(192 flights)
  • Sat72%(190 flights)
  • Sun61%(205 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM76%(175 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM79%(320 flights)
  • 12–3 PM66%(245 flights)
  • 3–6 PM56%(218 flights)
  • 6–9 PM58%(389 flights)
On-time trend by month
62%
May

Jun 57% → May 62% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202557%137
July 202553%148
August 202560%80
September 202584%67
October 202572%75
November 202574%107
December 202562%123
January 202673%113
February 202682%110
March 202666%147
April 202667%121
May 202662%119

Based on 1,391 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.