OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas to Oakland

1,468 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DAL–OAK arrive on time 69% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate69%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay55 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.1%of scheduled flights

based on 566 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time69%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel1.1%
    Flights566

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline33%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)6%
  • Late aircraft57%
  • 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 → OAK

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 · 790 flights
  • Afternoons69% on time · p90 45 min · 84 flights · limited
  • Middays68% on time · p90 55 min · 69 flights · limited
  • Evenings67% on time · p90 55 min · 392 flights
  • Overnights55% on time · p90 70 min · 577 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 69% to 79% on time.

  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 35 min · 272 flights
  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 35 min · 271 flights
  • Thursdays74% on time · p90 50 min · 283 flights
  • Fridays74% on time · p90 50 min · 286 flights
  • Mondays71% on time · p90 50 min · 285 flights
  • Sundays69% on time · p90 45 min · 307 flights
  • Saturdays69% on time · p90 40 min · 208 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.