DFW to OKC flight delays
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW) Oklahoma City, OK (OKC) · 175 miles
296 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
65.96%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3.72%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
73 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
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Envoy Air arrived on time 23.5 points more often than American Airlines over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 3.72% 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. OKC to DFW arrives on time 11.2 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.
This is a late route. Flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Oklahoma City miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, Envoy Air arrived on time most often on DFW to OKC. American Airlines was late most often.
Every airline on DFW to OKC
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 | 126 | 73.95% | 5.56% | 70 min | D |
| American Airlines | 111 | 50.47% | 3.6% | 80 min | F |
| SkyWest Airlines | 55 | 76.36% | 0% | 48 min | — |
| PSA Airlines | 4 | 100% | 0% | — | — |
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Common questions
Are flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Oklahoma City usually delayed?
65.96% of flights on the DFW to OKC 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.
Which airline is most on time from Dallas/Fort Worth to Oklahoma City?
Envoy Air, at 73.95% on time across 126 flights. The least punctual on the route was American Airlines at 50.47%.
How often are DFW to OKC flights cancelled?
3.72% 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.
When DFW to OKC flights are late, how late are they?
About 73 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 OKC 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 →