OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Madison

821 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–MSN arrive on time 60% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate60%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay100 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.2%of scheduled flights

based on 1,092 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • American Airlines
    On-time60%
    Medianon time
    p90100 min
    Cancel2.2%
    Flights1,092

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline38%
  • Weather5%
  • Air traffic (NAS)6%
  • 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 → MSN

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 49% to 79% on time.

  • Middays79% on time · p90 35 min · 220 flights
  • Mornings75% on time · p90 40 min · 841 flights
  • Afternoons62% on time · p90 95 min · 1,071 flights
  • Overnights51% on time · p90 125 min · 1,014 flights
  • Evenings49% on time · p90 140 min · 65 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 60% to 67% on time.

  • Saturdays67% on time · p90 80 min · 444 flights
  • Tuesdays64% on time · p90 85 min · 456 flights
  • Wednesdays63% on time · p90 75 min · 453 flights
  • Fridays62% on time · p90 75 min · 463 flights
  • Sundays62% on time · p90 90 min · 469 flights
  • Thursdays61% on time · p90 105 min · 458 flights
  • Mondays60% on time · p90 100 min · 468 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.