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Route Reliability

New York → Dallas

LGA–DAL · 1,381 miles · LaGuardia Airport to Dallas Love Field

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A Little Dicey
WanderNerd Reliability Score
73%
Arrive within 15 minutes
12 min
Average arrival delay
3.4%
Cancelled
1,492
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 73% of the time across 1,492 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

LGA–DAL flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 87% of the time, versus 57% between 6–9 PM.

Thursday is the weak spot.

LGA–DAL flights arrived on time 78% of the time on Fridays. On Thursdays: 66%.

Keep a backup plan handy.

This route was cancelled 3.4% of the time. Typical for U.S. flights is around 1–2%.

Slipping a little lately.

LGA–DAL flights arrived on time 73% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 78% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon74%(207 flights)
  • Tue76%(212 flights)
  • Wed74%(214 flights)
  • Thu66%(213 flights)
  • Fri78%(219 flights)
  • Sat76%(149 flights)
  • Sun68%(215 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM87%(357 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM82%(317 flights)
  • 12–3 PM70%(308 flights)
  • 3–6 PM59%(201 flights)
  • 6–9 PM57%(246 flights)
On-time trend by month
67%
May

Jun 61% → May 67% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202561%113
July 202574%112
August 202574%118
September 202580%116
October 202564%114
November 202573%115
December 202567%128
January 202687%111
February 202678%97
March 202675%126
April 202677%140
May 202667%139

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Based on 1,492 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.