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Route Reliability

Oakland → Dallas

OAK–DAL · 1,468 miles · Oakland International Airport to Dallas Love Field

80
Pretty Reliable
WanderNerd Reliability Score
78%
Arrive within 15 minutes
10 min
Average arrival delay
0.8%
Cancelled
471
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 78% of the time across 471 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

OAK–DAL flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 97% of the time, versus 33% between 6–9 PM.

Friday is doing you no favors.

OAK–DAL flights arrived on time 91% of the time on Saturdays and just 71% on Fridays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

OAK–DAL flights arrived on time 75% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 89% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon76%(62 flights)
  • Tue87%(60 flights)
  • Wed75%(61 flights)
  • Thu74%(61 flights)
  • Fri71%(61 flights)
  • Sat91%(67 flights)
  • Sun74%(92 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM97%(91 flights)
  • 6–9 AM86%(174 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM75%(68 flights)
  • 12–3 PM87%(30 flights)
  • 3–6 PM58%(55 flights)
  • 6–9 PM33%(46 flights)
On-time trend by month
71%
May

Jun 69% → May 71% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202569%61
July 202571%61
August 202576%38
September 202582%34
October 202583%30
November 202581%36
December 202595%37
January 202684%31
February 202687%31
March 202681%31
April 202672%36
May 202671%38

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 471 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.