OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Sarasota

945 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–SRQ arrive on time 61% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate61%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay85 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.5%of scheduled flights

based on 316 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • American Airlines
    On-time61%
    Medianon time
    p9085 min
    Cancel2.5%
    Flights316

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline30%
  • Weather9%
  • Air traffic (NAS)19%
  • Late aircraft43%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline13%
  • Weather88%
  • Air traffic (NAS)0%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 8 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 → SRQ

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

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 59% to 73% on time.

  • Thursdays73% on time · p90 40 min · 168 flights · limited
  • Mondays71% on time · p90 55 min · 167 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays70% on time · p90 50 min · 162 flights · limited
  • Fridays70% on time · p90 75 min · 167 flights · limited
  • Saturdays65% on time · p90 75 min · 186 flights · limited
  • Sundays62% on time · p90 85 min · 173 flights · limited
  • Wednesdays59% on time · p90 65 min · 162 flights · limited

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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.