OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Charlotte to Dallas-Fort Worth

936 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on CLT–DFW arrive on time 76% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate76%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.4%of scheduled flights

based on 3,633 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Not enough comparable data to name a most-on-time carrier — low-data carriers aren't ranked.

  • American Airlines
    On-time76%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel2.4%
    Flights3,601
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time69%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights32

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline25%
  • Weather13%
  • Air traffic (NAS)24%
  • Late aircraft38%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline7%
  • Weather92%
  • Air traffic (NAS)1%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 88 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly CLT → DFW

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 60% to 81% on time.

  • Mornings81% on time · p90 25 min · 3,673 flights
  • Middays79% on time · p90 35 min · 2,501 flights
  • Afternoons70% on time · p90 55 min · 2,032 flights
  • Overnights65% on time · p90 70 min · 1,782 flights
  • Evenings60% on time · p90 75 min · 2,029 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 68% to 78% on time.

  • Wednesdays78% on time · p90 40 min · 1,653 flights
  • Tuesdays76% on time · p90 40 min · 1,635 flights
  • Saturdays73% on time · p90 55 min · 1,670 flights
  • Thursdays72% on time · p90 45 min · 1,744 flights
  • Mondays72% on time · p90 55 min · 1,778 flights
  • Fridays71% on time · p90 50 min · 1,782 flights
  • Sundays68% on time · p90 65 min · 1,760 flights

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Methodology

A flight is on time when it arrives within 15 minutes of schedule — the US DOT / BTS standard. Median and p90(the “1-in-10 bad day”) are read from the full arrival-delay distribution, never averaged across periods.

Figures cover a carrier’s own BTS-coded flights. Cells below ~200 flights are flagged as limited data. All numbers are pre-computed from public BTS On-Time Performance data.