OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Fort Smith

227 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–FSM arrive on time 79% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate79%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay30 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled3.9%of scheduled flights

based on 1,169 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Envoy Air
    On-time79%
    Medianon time
    p9030 min
    Cancel3.9%
    Flights1,169

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline23%
  • Weather12%
  • Air traffic (NAS)16%
  • Late aircraft48%
  • 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 → FSM

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

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 63% to 89% on time.

  • Middays89% on time · p90 10 min · 55 flights · limited
  • Mornings86% on time · p90 15 min · 1,082 flights
  • Overnights79% on time · p90 35 min · 1,034 flights
  • Afternoons76% on time · p90 40 min · 1,104 flights
  • Evenings63% on time · p90 85 min · 152 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 77% to 85% on time.

  • Tuesdays85% on time · p90 20 min · 467 flights
  • Saturdays82% on time · p90 25 min · 472 flights
  • Thursdays80% on time · p90 30 min · 501 flights
  • Wednesdays80% on time · p90 30 min · 476 flights
  • Mondays78% on time · p90 35 min · 505 flights
  • Fridays77% on time · p90 40 min · 499 flights
  • Sundays77% on time · p90 40 min · 507 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.