OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas to Little Rock

296 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate73%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.9%of scheduled flights

based on 1,022 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
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.9%
    Flights1,022

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline26%
  • Weather3%
  • Air traffic (NAS)10%
  • Late aircraft61%
  • 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 → LIT

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 — 90% on time.

  • Mornings90% on time · p90 10 min · 858 flights
  • Middays84% on time · p90 25 min · 280 flights
  • Afternoons76% on time · p90 35 min · 810 flights
  • Evenings74% on time · p90 40 min · 266 flights
  • Overnights59% on time · p90 80 min · 867 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 69% to 82% on time.

  • Tuesdays82% on time · p90 30 min · 471 flights
  • Mondays79% on time · p90 30 min · 471 flights
  • Saturdays77% on time · p90 40 min · 315 flights
  • Wednesdays75% on time · p90 40 min · 471 flights
  • Thursdays74% on time · p90 55 min · 464 flights
  • Fridays73% on time · p90 50 min · 464 flights
  • Sundays69% on time · p90 50 min · 425 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.