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Route Reliability

Chicago → Dallas–Fort Worth

MDW–DFW · 797 miles · Chicago Midway International Airport to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

67
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
72%
Arrive within 15 minutes
17 min
Average arrival delay
1.7%
Cancelled
295
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Frontier Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 72% of the time across 295 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

MDW–DFW flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 78% of the time, versus 61% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Tuesdays have been rough.

MDW–DFW flights arrived on time 85% of the time on Thursdays and just 60% on Tuesdays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

MDW–DFW flights arrived on time 64% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 75% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon76%(58 flights)
  • Tue60%(20 flights)
  • Wed71%(21 flights)
  • Thu85%(46 flights)
  • Fri79%(58 flights)
  • Sat61%(36 flights)
  • Sun61%(49 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM72%(18 flights)
  • 6–9 AM78%(91 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM74%(39 flights)
  • 12–3 PM—(2 flights)
  • 3–6 PM71%(80 flights)
  • 6–9 PM63%(40 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM61%(18 flights)
On-time trend by month
76%
May

Jun 69% → May 76% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202569%26
July 202577%31
August 202588%24
September 202580%30
October 202573%33
November 202558%31
December 202579%19
January 202667%12
February 202680%15
March 202650%20
April 202667%18
May 202676%29

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Based on 295 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.