OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Buffalo

1,212 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–BUF arrive on time 55% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate55%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay100 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.6%of scheduled flights

based on 507 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • American Airlines
    On-time55%
    Median5 min
    p90100 min
    Cancel2.6%
    Flights507

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline24%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • Late aircraft63%
  • 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 DFW → BUF

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 50 min · 486 flights
  • Evenings54% on time · p90 100 min · 1,024 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 55% to 69% on time.

  • Tuesdays69% on time · p90 60 min · 222 flights
  • Wednesdays68% on time · p90 75 min · 221 flights
  • Fridays60% on time · p90 80 min · 224 flights
  • Thursdays59% on time · p90 100 min · 222 flights
  • Mondays58% on time · p90 120 min · 226 flights
  • Saturdays56% on time · p90 90 min · 216 flights
  • Sundays55% on time · p90 100 min · 222 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.