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Route Reliability

St. Louis → Dallas–Fort Worth

STLDFW · 550 miles · St. Louis Lambert International Airport to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

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A Little Dicey
WanderNerd Reliability Score
75%
Arrive within 15 minutes
20 min
Average arrival delay
3.1%
Cancelled
2,358
Flights in the data

Data through May 2026.

Airlines on this route

  • American Airlines75% on time · 2,297 flights
  • Frontier Airlines66% on time · 61 flights

Too little history on this route to call a winner. We rank airlines only after 100 flights each.

What the data says

Morning-you made the right choice.

STL–DFW flights departing between 3–6 AM arrived on time 92% of the time, versus 53% between 6–9 PM.

Skip Monday if you can.

STL–DFW flights arrived on time 83% of the time on Tuesdays. On Mondays: 69%.

Keep a backup plan handy.

This route was cancelled 3.1% of the time. Typical for U.S. flights is around 1–2%.

Slipping a little lately.

STL–DFW flights arrived on time 76% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 81% in the three months before that.

Best historical flights

Ranked by on-time arrivals, minimum 100 flights. Past performance, not a promise.

Top flights by on-time rate

More flights on this route

The breakdown

On-time by weekday
  • Mon69%(327 flights)
  • Tue83%(309 flights)
  • Wed74%(313 flights)
  • Thu76%(340 flights)
  • Fri79%(326 flights)
  • Sat74%(314 flights)
  • Sun70%(349 flights)
On-time by departure window
  • 3–6 AM92%(312 flights)
  • 6–9 AM81%(447 flights)
  • 9 AM–12 PM77%(600 flights)
  • 12–3 PM76%(245 flights)
  • 3–6 PM64%(419 flights)
  • 6–9 PM53%(255 flights)
On-time trend by month
75%
May

Jun 63% → May 75% on time

On-time arrival percentage by month
MonthOn-time percentageFlights
June 202563%211
July 202567%215
August 202572%197
September 202575%189
October 202580%206
November 202574%200
December 202576%197
January 202682%152
February 202687%158
March 202675%180
April 202678%175
May 202675%198

Based on 2,358 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.