DFW to BDL flight delays
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW) Hartford, CT (BDL) · 1,471 miles
704 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
64.33%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3.69%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
66 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
25 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: 3.69% 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 season swings this route hard. In October it ran 29.5 points more punctual than in July — a difference bigger than the one between the best and worst airlines on most routes. If the date is flexible, it is worth more than the carrier.
This is a late route. Flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Hartford miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
The two directions do not behave alike. BDL to DFW arrives on time 10 points more 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.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, American Airlines arrived on time most often on DFW to BDL. Flights ran closest to schedule in February and worst in July.
Every airline on DFW to BDL
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 | 704 | 64.33% | 3.69% | 66 min | F |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
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Common questions
Are flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Hartford usually delayed?
64.33% of flights on the DFW to BDL 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 Dallas/Fort Worth to Hartford?
Only American Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 704 flights and 64.33% arriving on time.
How often are DFW to BDL flights cancelled?
3.69% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 37 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Dallas/Fort Worth to Hartford?
October, when 76.3% of flights arrived on time. The worst was July at 46.8%.
When DFW to BDL flights are late, how late are they?
About 66 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 DFW to BDL during January 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 →