OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Santa Barbara

1,315 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–SBA arrive on time 75% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate75%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.4%of scheduled flights

based on 276 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • American Airlines
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel1.4%
    Flights276

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline29%
  • Weather12%
  • Air traffic (NAS)16%
  • Late aircraft42%
  • 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 → SBA

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 50% to 78% on time.

  • Mornings78% on time · p90 35 min · 200 flights
  • Middays72% on time · p90 55 min · 760 flights
  • Overnights54% on time · p90 100 min · 63 flights · limited
  • Evenings50% on time · p90 115 min · 453 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 61% to 68% on time.

  • Wednesdays68% on time · p90 80 min · 207 flights
  • Saturdays67% on time · p90 55 min · 208 flights
  • Thursdays67% on time · p90 80 min · 215 flights
  • Fridays66% on time · p90 80 min · 217 flights
  • Mondays65% on time · p90 75 min · 219 flights
  • Sundays62% on time · p90 75 min · 219 flights
  • Tuesdays61% on time · p90 90 min · 207 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.