OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

DFWLAX

Dallas-Fort Worth to Los Angeles

1,235 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–LAX arrive on time 71% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate71%arrived within 15 min
Median delayon timetypical arrival
p90 delay55 min1 in 10 flights is worsetail risk
Cancelled1.7%of scheduled flights

based on 6,557 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Delta Air Linesbest
    On-time87%
    Medianon time
    p9025 min
    Cancel1.0%
    Flights718
  • Spirit Airlines
    On-time81%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel0.6%
    Flights783
  • American Airlines
    On-time67%
    Medianon time
    p9060 min
    Cancel2.0%
    Flights4,699
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights357

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline38%
  • Weather7%
  • Air traffic (NAS)14%
  • Late aircraft41%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

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Delay predictorfor this route→DFW airportDallas-Fort Worth→LAX airportLos Angeles→Virgin America on this routecarrier detail→Virgin Americaairline profile→

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.