OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas to Portland

1,626 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DAL–PDX arrive on time 68% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate68%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.1%of scheduled flights

based on 92 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time68%
    Median5 min
    p9040 min
    Cancel1.1%
    Flights92

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline35%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • Late aircraft56%
  • 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 → PDX

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

Best time of day

Middays are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 75% on time.

  • Middays75% on time · p90 45 min · 110 flights · limited
  • Afternoons62% on time · p90 45 min · 130 flights · limited
  • Evenings52% on time · p90 60 min · 100 flights · limited

Best day of week

Sundays are the most reliable day to fly this route — 76% on time.

  • Sundays76% on time · p90 45 min · 68 flights · limited
  • Saturdays60% on time · p90 60 min · 78 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.