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Route Reliability

FWA → Detroit

FWADTW · 128 miles · FWA Airport to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

83
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
81%
Arrive within 15 minutes
15 min
Average arrival delay
0.6%
Cancelled
695
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Delta Air Lines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 81% of the time across 695 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Departure time hasn't mattered much.

On-time rates stay between 79% and 82% across the day.

Mondays have been rough.

FWA–DTW flights arrived on time 88% of the time on Wednesdays and just 73% on Mondays. That gap is worth planning around.

Trending in the right direction.

FWA–DTW flights arrived on time 83% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 63% 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

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon73%(100 flights)
  • Tue86%(101 flights)
  • Wed88%(101 flights)
  • Thu81%(99 flights)
  • Fri79%(98 flights)
  • Sat81%(95 flights)
  • Sun76%(97 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM82%(358 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM(3 flights)
  • 12–3 PM79%(329 flights)
  • 3–6 PM(1 flights)
On-time trend by month
85%
May

Jun 87% → May 85% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202587%53
July 202582%60
August 202589%62
September 202593%60
October 202589%61
November 202582%56
December 202558%50
January 202663%57
February 202669%52
March 202672%60
April 202693%60
May 202685%60

Based on 695 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.