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SRQ to DFW flight delays

Sarasota/Bradenton, FL (SRQ) Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW) · 945 miles

377 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics

58.86%

Arrived on time

Within 15 minutes of schedule

2.65%

Cancelled

Share of scheduled flights

112 min

When late, late by

Average across delayed arrivals

47 min

Delay per flight

Averaged over every flight flown

What the record says about this route

The season swings this route hard. In September it ran 53.6 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 Sarasota/Bradenton to Dallas/Fort Worth miss their scheduled arrival often enough that a tight connection at the far end is a connection at risk.

Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 2.65% 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. SRQ as a whole runs 22 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.

Which airline should you fly on this route?

Over January 2025 – August 2026, American Airlines arrived on time most often on SRQ to DFW. Flights ran closest to schedule in September and worst in July.

Every airline on SRQ 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 367 59.94% 2.72% 116 min F
PSA Airlines 9 22.22% 0% 40 min
Envoy Air 1 0% 0% 22 min

Month by month

Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.

Jul 2025 peak 79 Jun 2026
On-time arrival rate, %

Common questions

Are flights from Sarasota/Bradenton to Dallas/Fort Worth usually delayed?

58.86% of flights on the SRQ 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 Sarasota/Bradenton to Dallas/Fort Worth?

Only American Airlines appears in the published record on this route, with 367 flights and 59.94% arriving on time.

How often are SRQ to DFW flights cancelled?

2.65% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 27 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.

What is the best month to fly Sarasota/Bradenton to Dallas/Fort Worth?

September, when 79.3% of flights arrived on time. The worst was July at 25.7%.

When SRQ to DFW flights are late, how late are they?

About 112 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 SRQ 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 →