Skip to content
WanderNerd
Check a flight

Route Reliability

Detroit → Burlington

DTW–BTV · 537 miles · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Burlington International Airport

66
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
72%
Arrive within 15 minutes
20 min
Average arrival delay
1.7%
Cancelled
720
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Delta Air Lines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 72% of the time across 720 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

DTW–BTV flights departing between 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 100% of the time, versus 67% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Wednesday is the weak spot.

DTW–BTV flights arrived on time 76% of the time on Saturdays. On Wednesdays: 68%.

Trending in the right direction.

DTW–BTV flights arrived on time 73% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 54% 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
  • Mon69%(105 flights)
  • Tue74%(99 flights)
  • Wed68%(101 flights)
  • Thu72%(101 flights)
  • Fri70%(99 flights)
  • Sat76%(97 flights)
  • Sun72%(104 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 9 AM–12 PM100%(10 flights)
  • 12–3 PM74%(334 flights)
  • 3–6 PM95%(21 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM67%(341 flights)
On-time trend by month
77%
May

Jun 67% → May 77% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202567%60
July 202577%60
August 202584%62
September 202574%54
October 202585%61
November 202587%54
December 202550%56
January 202652%58
February 202660%55
March 202664%59
April 202679%66
May 202677%61

Keep nerding

Based on 720 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.