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Route Reliability

San Diego → Dallas

SAN–DAL · 1,182 miles · San Diego International Airport to Dallas Love Field

70
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
72%
Arrive within 15 minutes
10 min
Average arrival delay
1.7%
Cancelled
1,570
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 1,570 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning flights do better here.

SAN–DAL flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 90% of the time, versus 53% between 6–9 PM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

SAN–DAL flights arrived on time 85% of the time on Saturdays and just 63% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

SAN–DAL flights arrived on time 63% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 74% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon68%(237 flights)
  • Tue78%(221 flights)
  • Wed81%(216 flights)
  • Thu69%(237 flights)
  • Fri69%(237 flights)
  • Sat85%(157 flights)
  • Sun63%(224 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 6–9 AM90%(484 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM81%(209 flights)
  • 12–3 PM64%(227 flights)
  • 3–6 PM61%(424 flights)
  • 6–9 PM53%(185 flights)
On-time trend by month
59%
May

Jun 82% → May 59% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202582%136
July 202574%136
August 202573%118
September 202584%113
October 202579%137
November 202568%123
December 202572%137
January 202675%112
February 202675%120
March 202660%135
April 202670%129
May 202659%133

Same trip, other airports

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Based on 1,570 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.