OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas to Louisville

725 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DAL–SDF arrive on time 74% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate74%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.8%of scheduled flights

based on 246 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.8%
    Flights246

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline46%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)13%
  • Late aircraft37%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly DAL → SDF

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 — 80% on time.

  • Middays80% on time · p90 30 min · 416 flights
  • Afternoons61% on time · p90 55 min · 124 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 69% to 90% on time.

  • Tuesdays90% on time · p90 15 min · 68 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays85% on time · p90 15 min · 67 flights · limited
  • Saturdays81% on time · p90 25 min · 94 flights · limited
  • Mondays73% on time · p90 40 min · 67 flights · limited
  • Fridays71% on time · p90 55 min · 68 flights · limited
  • Thursdays70% on time · p90 50 min · 69 flights · limited
  • Sundays69% on time · p90 40 min · 144 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.