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Route Reliability

St. Louis → Dallas

STLDAL · 546 miles · St. Louis Lambert International Airport to Dallas Love Field

78
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
78%
Arrive within 15 minutes
7 min
Average arrival delay
1.6%
Cancelled
1,916
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 1,916 flights. No comparison to make.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

STL–DAL flights departing between 6–9 AM arrived on time 93% of the time, versus 63% between 9 PM–12 AM.

Sunday scaries are real for this one.

STL–DAL flights arrived on time 87% of the time on Tuesdays and just 69% on Sundays. That gap is worth planning around.

Recent months have been rougher.

STL–DAL flights arrived on time 77% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 86% in the three months before that.

Flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon75%(286 flights)
  • Tue87%(268 flights)
  • Wed85%(273 flights)
  • Thu76%(286 flights)
  • Fri81%(288 flights)
  • Sat74%(205 flights)
  • Sun69%(272 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM92%(191 flights)
  • 6–9 AM93%(382 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM85%(233 flights)
  • 12–3 PM77%(326 flights)
  • 3–6 PM66%(285 flights)
  • 6–9 PM66%(339 flights)
  • 9 PM–12 AM63%(122 flights)
On-time trend by month
73%
May

Jun 70% → May 73% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202570%159
July 202572%159
August 202578%169
September 202578%171
October 202575%153
November 202580%149
December 202578%151
January 202691%137
February 202688%146
March 202677%165
April 202680%156
May 202673%163

Based on 1,916 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.