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Route Reliability

Detroit → Austin

DTWAUS · 1,149 miles · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Austin–Bergstrom International Airport

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Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
80%
Arrive within 15 minutes
3 min
Average arrival delay
1.2%
Cancelled
1,346
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • Delta Air Lines80% on time · 1,283 flights
  • Spirit Airlines80% on time · 63 flights

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

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

DTW–AUS flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 87% of the time, versus 67% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

DTW–AUS flights arrived on time 90% of the time on Tuesdays. On Sundays: 75%.

Ticking up lately.

DTW–AUS flights arrived on time 84% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 79% 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
  • Mon76%(206 flights)
  • Tue90%(186 flights)
  • Wed83%(187 flights)
  • Thu75%(198 flights)
  • Fri78%(205 flights)
  • Sat81%(149 flights)
  • Sun75%(197 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM87%(358 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM84%(49 flights)
  • 12–3 PM79%(277 flights)
  • 3–6 PM74%(324 flights)
  • 6–9 PM76%(305 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM67%(15 flights)
On-time trend by month
77%
May

Jun 64% → May 77% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202564%124
July 202563%130
August 202582%130
September 202591%116
October 202586%121
November 202582%106
December 202574%104
January 202673%75
February 202690%78
March 202686%112
April 202691%116
May 202677%116

Based on 1,346 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.