OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Cincinnati

812 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–CVG arrive on time 67% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate67%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay65 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.7%of scheduled flights

based on 1,504 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • PSA Airlines
    On-time32%
    Median30 min
    p90105 min
    Cancel6.5%
    Flights31
  • American Airlinesbest
    On-time67%
    Medianon time
    p9065 min
    Cancel2.6%
    Flights1,473

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline32%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)13%
  • Late aircraft50%
  • 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 → CVG

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 — 82% on time.

  • Mornings82% on time · p90 25 min · 1,233 flights
  • Middays74% on time · p90 55 min · 1,197 flights
  • Afternoons66% on time · p90 70 min · 847 flights
  • Evenings62% on time · p90 70 min · 1,377 flights
  • Overnights55% on time · p90 85 min · 790 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 65% to 75% on time.

  • Tuesdays75% on time · p90 45 min · 740 flights
  • Wednesdays72% on time · p90 60 min · 718 flights
  • Saturdays72% on time · p90 60 min · 755 flights
  • Mondays69% on time · p90 60 min · 815 flights
  • Thursdays66% on time · p90 60 min · 795 flights
  • Fridays65% on time · p90 70 min · 804 flights
  • Sundays65% on time · p90 65 min · 817 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.