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Route Reliability

Chicago → Dallas

ORD–DAL · 798 miles · Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Dallas Love Field

70
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
72%
Arrive within 15 minutes
13 min
Average arrival delay
1.0%
Cancelled
622
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Southwest Airlines is the only airline in this data on this route, arriving on time 72% of the time across 622 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

ORD–DAL flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 93% of the time, versus 58% between 3–6 PM.

Skip Wednesday if you can.

ORD–DAL flights arrived on time 77% of the time on Tuesdays. On Wednesdays: 66%.

Recent months have been rougher.

ORD–DAL flights arrived on time 56% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 73% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon76%(95 flights)
  • Tue77%(85 flights)
  • Wed66%(85 flights)
  • Thu74%(93 flights)
  • Fri73%(93 flights)
  • Sat72%(65 flights)
  • Sun69%(93 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM93%(150 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM81%(16 flights)
  • 12–3 PM72%(224 flights)
  • 3–6 PM58%(219 flights)
On-time trend by month
50%
May

Jun 70% → May 50% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202570%86
July 202561%87
August 202584%73
September 202583%70
October 202587%86
November 202566%29
December 202565%31
January 202680%30
February 202675%28
March 202647%30
April 202672%29
May 202650%30

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Based on 622 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.