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Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) departure delays

27,815 departures · 183 routes · February 2025 – July 2026

62.12%

Left on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

4.55%

Cancelled

Share of departures

79 min

When late, late by

Average delayed departure

#123

Rank

Among graded US airports

What the record says about DFW

DFW 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.

The airlines flying from here are not equally affected. Delta Air Lines left on time 19.8 points more often than American Airlines from the same airport — which is the clearest evidence available that a delayed departure is not purely the airport's fault.

With 40 routes in the record, DFW 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 DFW

Airline Departures On time
Delta Air Lines 946 76.4%
Envoy Air 6,593 75.5%
SkyWest Airlines 1,966 73.3%
Alaska Airlines 267 70.6%
United Airlines 913 67.9%
PSA Airlines 1,549 66.2%
Frontier Airlines 1,135 65.1%
British Airways 326 57.9%
American Airlines 16,680 56.6%

Routes out of DFW

DFW → LHR London 2,482 flights · 64.93% on time F DFW → ORD Chicago 667 flights · 58.07% on time F DFW → ATL Atlanta 541 flights · 69.38% on time D DFW → DEN Denver 539 flights · 58.96% on time F DFW → LGA New York 534 flights · 60.98% on time F DFW → LAX Los Angeles 521 flights · 64.82% on time F DFW → SEA Seattle 490 flights · 62.58% on time F DFW → PHX Phoenix 465 flights · 66.22% on time F DFW → IAH Houston 464 flights · 58.07% on time F DFW → SFO San Francisco 424 flights · 36.92% on time F DFW → AUS Austin 413 flights · 58.22% on time F DFW → MCO Orlando 409 flights · 48.08% on time F DFW → MIA Miami 384 flights · 58.7% on time F DFW → LAS Las Vegas 382 flights · 53.55% on time F DFW → SAN San Diego 381 flights · 47.96% on time F DFW → SAT San Antonio 369 flights · 55.04% on time F DFW → BOS Boston 331 flights · 61.98% on time F DFW → CLT Charlotte 329 flights · 61.46% on time F DFW → PHL Philadelphia 329 flights · 65.29% on time F DFW → BNA Nashville 327 flights · 55.19% on time F DFW → SLC Salt Lake City 326 flights · 63.38% on time F DFW → EWR Newark 322 flights · 69.35% on time D DFW → XNA Fayetteville 309 flights · 67.57% on time F DFW → OKC Oklahoma City 296 flights · 65.96% on time F DFW → DTW Detroit 288 flights · 66.31% on time F DFW → MSP Minneapolis 286 flights · 62.04% on time F DFW → MAF Midland/Odessa 273 flights · 73.08% on time D DFW → DCA Washington 270 flights · 67.57% on time D DFW → SNA Santa Ana 269 flights · 69.92% on time D DFW → SGF Springfield 265 flights · 72.55% on time D DFW → FLL Fort Lauderdale 264 flights · 59.61% on time F DFW → TPA Tampa 260 flights · 50.2% on time F DFW → CRP Corpus Christi 256 flights · 75.51% on time D DFW → STL St. Louis 240 flights · 62.22% on time F DFW → LIT Little Rock 237 flights · 69.87% on time D DFW → TUL Tulsa 233 flights · 63.64% on time F DFW → LBB Lubbock 229 flights · 78.44% on time C DFW → ABQ Albuquerque 227 flights · 61.97% on time F DFW → MSY New Orleans 227 flights · 58.22% on time F DFW → MCI Kansas City 222 flights · 62.98% on time F