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Dallas (DAL) departure delays

6,025 departures · 77 routes · March 2025 – August 2026

51.06%

Left on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

1.18%

Cancelled

Share of departures

53 min

When late, late by

Average delayed departure

#134

Rank

Among graded US airports

What the record says about DAL

DAL is one of the later-running airports in the record. When an airport is this congested the cause is usually structural — runway capacity, airspace, or a hub airline scheduling more departures into a peak than the field can clear — and no airline flying from it escapes entirely.

With 40 routes in the record, DAL is a hub, and hubs carry a particular risk: a delay early in the day propagates through every aircraft that was due to fly on afterwards. Morning departures from a hub are reliably better than evening ones.

Which airlines run best out of DAL

Airline Departures On time
Southwest Airlines 5,876 55.9%

Routes out of DAL

DAL → HOU Houston 328 flights · 63.44% on time F DAL → ATL Atlanta 265 flights · 70.34% on time D DAL → DEN Denver 263 flights · 58.59% on time F DAL → LAS Las Vegas 238 flights · 51.28% on time F DAL → MCO Orlando 236 flights · 60% on time F DAL → SAT San Antonio 223 flights · 57.47% on time F DAL → PHX Phoenix 219 flights · 54.17% on time F DAL → BNA Nashville 207 flights · 50.49% on time F DAL → MDW Chicago 195 flights · 56.38% on time F DAL → AUS Austin 194 flights · 64.06% on time D DAL → MCI Kansas City 172 flights · 64.12% on time D DAL → STL St. Louis 169 flights · 54.17% on time F DAL → MSY New Orleans 162 flights · 61.49% on time D DAL → BWI Baltimore 157 flights · 64.71% on time D DAL → ELP El Paso 146 flights · 62.94% on time D DAL → DCA Washington 146 flights · 58.45% on time F DAL → LAX Los Angeles 141 flights · 46.43% on time F DAL → LGA New York 138 flights · 45.38% on time F DAL → SAN San Diego 136 flights · 49.62% on time F DAL → ABQ Albuquerque 128 flights · 58.73% on time F DAL → LBB Lubbock 112 flights · 55.45% on time F DAL → AMA Amarillo 110 flights · 49.54% on time F DAL → MAF Midland/Odessa 108 flights · 58.88% on time F DAL → TPA Tampa 106 flights · 56.6% on time F DAL → ECP Panama City 92 flights · 59.34% on time — DAL → LIT Little Rock 86 flights · 46.51% on time — DAL → BHM Birmingham 86 flights · 51.81% on time — DAL → TUL Tulsa 82 flights · 48.78% on time — DAL → SMF Sacramento 60 flights · 51.67% on time — DAL → SLC Salt Lake City 60 flights · 49.15% on time — DAL → OKC Oklahoma City 60 flights · 53.33% on time — DAL → IND Indianapolis 60 flights · 55% on time — DAL → COS Colorado Springs 60 flights · 60% on time — DAL → VPS Valparaiso 57 flights · 64.29% on time — DAL → PNS Pensacola 57 flights · 53.57% on time — DAL → CMH Columbus 54 flights · 57.41% on time — DAL → FLL Fort Lauderdale 41 flights · 41.46% on time — DAL → OMA Omaha 40 flights · 50% on time — DAL → MIA Miami 40 flights · 73.68% on time — DAL → MEM Memphis 38 flights · 63.16% on time —