EWR to DFW flight delays
Newark, NJ (EWR) Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW) · 1,372 miles
3,571 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
79.19%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3.36%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
85 min
When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
19 min
Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. United Airlines arrived on time 11.8 points more often than Spirit 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: 3.36% 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 shape of the lateness matters here. Flights on this route are not late often, but when they are late they are late by about 85 minutes — long enough to lose a connection or an evening. The on-time percentage looks reassuring and understates the consequence of being on the wrong flight.
The two directions do not behave alike. DFW to EWR arrives on time 7.8 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 January 2025 – August 2026, United Airlines arrived on time most often on EWR to DFW. Spirit Airlines was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in April and worst in June.
Every airline on EWR 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Airlines | 1,758 | 80.55% | 2.62% | 77 min | C |
| American Airlines | 1,437 | 80.13% | 4.18% | 91 min | D |
| Spirit Airlines | 285 | 68.75% | 4.56% | 81 min | F |
| Frontier Airlines | 57 | 63.64% | 1.75% | 164 min | — |
| Republic Airways | 34 | 81.82% | 0% | 49 min | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
DFW to EWR Dallas/Fort Worth back to Newark 71.44% on time FOther routes from Newark
Common questions
Are flights from Newark to Dallas/Fort Worth usually delayed?
79.19% of flights on the EWR to DFW route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is about the same as the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Newark to Dallas/Fort Worth?
United Airlines, at 80.55% on time across 1,758 flights. The least punctual on the route was Spirit Airlines at 68.75%.
How often are EWR to DFW flights cancelled?
3.36% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 34 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Newark to Dallas/Fort Worth?
April, when 85.1% of flights arrived on time. The worst was June at 74%.
When EWR to DFW flights are late, how late are they?
About 85 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 EWR to DFW 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 →