OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to San Diego

1,171 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–SAN arrive on time 62% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate62%arrived within 15 min
Median delayon timetypical arrival
p90 delay70 min1 in 10 flights is worsetail risk
Cancelled3.0%of scheduled flights

based on 3,255 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • American Airlinesbest
    On-time62%
    Medianon time
    p9070 min
    Cancel2.9%
    Flights3,163
  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time54%
    Medianon time
    p9090 min
    Cancel5.4%
    Flights92

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline34%
  • Weather7%
  • Air traffic (NAS)14%
  • Late aircraft45%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

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Related pages

Delay predictorfor this route→DFW airportDallas-Fort Worth→SAN airportSan Diego→Spirit Airlines on this routecarrier detail→Spirit Airlinesairline profile→

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.