OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Ontario

1,188 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–ONT arrive on time 65% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate65%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay65 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.8%of scheduled flights

based on 2,094 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Not enough comparable data to name a most-on-time carrier — low-data carriers aren't ranked.

  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time80%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel2.1%
    Flights94
  • American Airlines
    On-time64%
    Medianon time
    p9070 min
    Cancel2.8%
    Flights2,000

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline32%
  • Weather6%
  • Air traffic (NAS)9%
  • Late aircraft53%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline10%
  • Weather86%
  • Air traffic (NAS)3%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 58 cancellations with a reported cause (BTS reports causes from June 2003).

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly DFW → ONT

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-06 .. 2026-05).

Best time of day

On-time rates are fairly even by time of day on this route — ranging from 53% to 81% on time.

  • Mornings81% on time · p90 35 min · 1,306 flights
  • Middays79% on time · p90 40 min · 2,101 flights
  • Afternoons71% on time · p90 80 min · 419 flights
  • Evenings59% on time · p90 90 min · 1,284 flights
  • Overnights53% on time · p90 90 min · 1,958 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 64% to 71% on time.

  • Tuesdays71% on time · p90 60 min · 942 flights
  • Wednesdays70% on time · p90 60 min · 947 flights
  • Fridays69% on time · p90 60 min · 1,030 flights
  • Thursdays69% on time · p90 70 min · 1,064 flights
  • Saturdays68% on time · p90 55 min · 979 flights
  • Mondays67% on time · p90 70 min · 1,027 flights
  • Sundays64% on time · p90 80 min · 1,079 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.