OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Little Rock

304 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate71%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay55 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled3.8%of scheduled flights

based on 2,642 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel2.5%
    Flights163
  • American Airlines
    On-time55%
    Median5 min
    p90120 min
    Cancel3.2%
    Flights370
  • Envoy Air
    On-time77%
    Medianon time
    p9035 min
    Cancel2.4%
    Flights1,739
  • PSA Airlines
    On-time59%
    Medianon time
    p9090 min
    Cancel11.4%
    Flights370

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline26%
  • Weather11%
  • Air traffic (NAS)14%
  • 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 → LIT

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 65% to 88% on time.

  • Mornings88% on time · p90 15 min · 1,528 flights
  • Middays86% on time · p90 20 min · 1,538 flights
  • Afternoons72% on time · p90 55 min · 2,212 flights
  • Evenings68% on time · p90 60 min · 1,338 flights
  • Overnights65% on time · p90 65 min · 1,802 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 73% to 78% on time.

  • Tuesdays78% on time · p90 40 min · 1,105 flights
  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 40 min · 1,252 flights
  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 45 min · 1,187 flights
  • Saturdays75% on time · p90 45 min · 1,117 flights
  • Fridays75% on time · p90 45 min · 1,242 flights
  • Mondays74% on time · p90 55 min · 1,252 flights
  • Sundays73% on time · p90 50 min · 1,263 flights
Advertisement

Keep exploring

Related pages

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.