CLE to DFW flight delays
Cleveland, OH (CLE) Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW) · 1,021 miles
148 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
63.57%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
4.05%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
91 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
34 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: 4.05% 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.
This route does worse than its own airport. CLE as a whole runs 16.3 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.
This is a late route. Flights from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
Only American Airlines flies this route in the published record, so there is no choice to weigh — the route's figures and the airline's are the same figures.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, American Airlines arrived on time most often on CLE to DFW.
Every airline on CLE 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 119 | 66.67% | 5.04% | 107 min | F |
| Frontier Airlines | 29 | 51.72% | 0% | 50 min | — |
Other routes from Cleveland
Common questions
Are flights from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth usually delayed?
63.57% of flights on the CLE to DFW route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 4 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth?
Only American Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 119 flights and 66.67% arriving on time.
How often are CLE to DFW flights cancelled?
4.05% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 41 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
When CLE to DFW flights are late, how late are they?
About 91 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 CLE 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 →