OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Fresno

1,313 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–FAT arrive on time 63% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate63%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay70 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.0%of scheduled flights

based on 1,413 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • American Airlines
    On-time63%
    Medianon time
    p9070 min
    Cancel2.0%
    Flights1,413

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline32%
  • Weather7%
  • Air traffic (NAS)10%
  • Late aircraft52%
  • 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 → FAT

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 30 min · 892 flights
  • Middays69% on time · p90 50 min · 1,017 flights
  • Afternoons60% on time · p90 85 min · 229 flights
  • Evenings56% on time · p90 90 min · 816 flights
  • Overnights56% on time · p90 75 min · 1,337 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 62% to 70% on time.

  • Tuesdays70% on time · p90 45 min · 578 flights
  • Wednesdays66% on time · p90 60 min · 583 flights
  • Mondays65% on time · p90 70 min · 622 flights
  • Fridays64% on time · p90 75 min · 641 flights
  • Saturdays63% on time · p90 60 min · 583 flights
  • Sundays62% on time · p90 75 min · 647 flights
  • Thursdays62% on time · p90 75 min · 637 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.