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BHM to DFW flight delays

Birmingham, AL (BHM) Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW) · 597 miles

206 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

70.47%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

4.85%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

86 min

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

26 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 4.85% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.

The two directions do not behave alike. DFW to BHM arrives on time 12.4 points less often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.

Flights from Birmingham to Dallas/Fort Worth run late more often than the average route, though not severely.

This is a thin route — 206 flights across the whole period. On a route this infrequent a cancellation is far more costly than the rate suggests, because the next departure may not be the same day.

Every airline on BHM to DFW

Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.

Airline Flights On time Cancelled Avg delay Grade
Envoy Air 96 74.73% 3.13% 80 min
PSA Airlines 78 62.5% 6.41% 94 min
American Airlines 29 74.07% 6.9% 74 min
SkyWest Airlines 3 100% 0%

Common questions

Are flights from Birmingham to Dallas/Fort Worth usually delayed?

70.47% of flights on the BHM to DFW route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.

How often are BHM to DFW flights cancelled?

4.85% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 49 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.

When BHM to DFW flights are late, how late are they?

About 86 minutes on average across the flights that arrived more than 15 minutes behind schedule.

What these figures do and do not tell you

Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on BHM to DFW during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.

A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.

Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →