DFW to GIG flight delays
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW) Rio De Janeiro (GIG)
229 flights · July 2024 – July 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics and ANAC Brazil
53.85%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
14.85%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
75 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
36 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: 14.85% 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 season swings this route hard. In January it ran 57.6 points more punctual than in January — 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.
Flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Rio De Janeiro arrive late more often than they arrive on time. At this rate lateness is the normal outcome, not the exception, and the schedule is better read as an aspiration than a plan.
The two directions do not behave alike. GIG to DFW arrives on time 28.2 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.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over July 2024 – July 2026, American Airlines arrived on time most often on DFW to GIG. Flights ran closest to schedule in February and worst in November.
Every airline on DFW to GIG
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 | 229 | 53.85% | 14.85% | 75 min | F |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
Other routes from Dallas/Fort Worth
Common questions
Are flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Rio De Janeiro usually delayed?
53.85% of flights on the DFW to GIG route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 5 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airlines fly from Dallas/Fort Worth to Rio De Janeiro?
Only American Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 229 flights and 53.85% arriving on time.
How often are DFW to GIG flights cancelled?
14.85% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 149 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 Rio De Janeiro?
January, when 86.2% of flights arrived on time. The worst was January at 28.6%.
When DFW to GIG flights are late, how late are they?
About 75 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 GIG during July 2024 – July 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 →