OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas to Indianapolis

755 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DAL–IND arrive on time 75% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate75%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.6%of scheduled flights

based on 677 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel1.6%
    Flights677

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline35%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • Late aircraft53%
  • 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 → IND

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

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 62% to 90% on time.

  • Mornings90% on time · p90 10 min · 703 flights
  • Middays86% on time · p90 20 min · 358 flights
  • Afternoons70% on time · p90 35 min · 60 flights · limited
  • Overnights65% on time · p90 60 min · 377 flights
  • Evenings62% on time · p90 65 min · 586 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 73% to 80% on time.

  • Fridays80% on time · p90 40 min · 311 flights
  • Saturdays79% on time · p90 35 min · 260 flights
  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 40 min · 309 flights
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 50 min · 313 flights
  • Tuesdays75% on time · p90 50 min · 288 flights
  • Sundays74% on time · p90 40 min · 315 flights
  • Wednesdays73% on time · p90 45 min · 288 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.