OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Milwaukee

853 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

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

On-time rate63%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay95 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.8%of scheduled flights

based on 1,106 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
    p9095 min
    Cancel2.8%
    Flights1,106

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline26%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)10%
  • Late aircraft60%
  • 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 → MKE

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 — 79% on time.

  • Mornings79% on time · p90 35 min · 908 flights
  • Middays69% on time · p90 90 min · 242 flights
  • Overnights59% on time · p90 80 min · 838 flights
  • Afternoons59% on time · p90 110 min · 1,015 flights
  • Evenings51% on time · p90 125 min · 395 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 60% to 68% on time.

  • Wednesdays68% on time · p90 75 min · 483 flights
  • Tuesdays68% on time · p90 95 min · 482 flights
  • Saturdays66% on time · p90 70 min · 464 flights
  • Fridays65% on time · p90 85 min · 484 flights
  • Sundays62% on time · p90 100 min · 503 flights
  • Thursdays62% on time · p90 80 min · 494 flights
  • Mondays60% on time · p90 80 min · 488 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.