OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Santa Fe

551 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–SAF arrive on time 72% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate72%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay50 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.7%of scheduled flights

based on 1,752 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • SkyWest Airlines
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9050 min
    Cancel2.7%
    Flights1,752

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline47%
  • Weather23%
  • Air traffic (NAS)16%
  • Late aircraft14%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

When to fly

Best time to fly DFW → SAF

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 — 87% on time.

  • Mornings87% on time · p90 20 min · 908 flights
  • Middays78% on time · p90 40 min · 1,284 flights
  • Overnights72% on time · p90 55 min · 622 flights
  • Evenings72% on time · p90 55 min · 819 flights
  • Afternoons71% on time · p90 45 min · 1,092 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 74% to 79% on time.

  • Wednesdays79% on time · p90 35 min · 677 flights
  • Tuesdays78% on time · p90 45 min · 672 flights
  • Fridays76% on time · p90 40 min · 676 flights
  • Saturdays76% on time · p90 40 min · 683 flights
  • Sundays76% on time · p90 45 min · 672 flights
  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 40 min · 667 flights
  • Mondays74% on time · p90 50 min · 678 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.