OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas to Columbus

919 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DAL–CMH arrive on time 73% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate73%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay35 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.7%of scheduled flights

based on 424 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel0.7%
    Flights424

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline38%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)11%
  • Late aircraft47%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly DAL → CMH

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 87% on time.

  • Mornings87% on time · p90 15 min · 167 flights · limited
  • Middays77% on time · p90 30 min · 409 flights
  • Afternoons74% on time · p90 50 min · 499 flights
  • Evenings64% on time · p90 50 min · 135 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 68% to 81% on time.

  • Tuesdays81% on time · p90 45 min · 165 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays79% on time · p90 25 min · 162 flights · limited
  • Saturdays77% on time · p90 25 min · 171 flights · limited
  • Sundays74% on time · p90 40 min · 253 flights
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 30 min · 166 flights · limited
  • Thursdays72% on time · p90 40 min · 164 flights · limited
  • Fridays68% on time · p90 50 min · 168 flights · limited
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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.