OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Syracuse

1,337 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–SYR arrive on time 50% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate50%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay105 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled3.3%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-time50%
    Median10 min
    p90105 min
    Cancel3.3%
    Flights276

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline42%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)8%
  • Late aircraft48%
  • Security1%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Late aircraft.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline11%
  • Weather78%
  • Air traffic (NAS)11%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 9 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 → SYR

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 46% to 55% on time.

  • Wednesdays55% on time · p90 105 min · 140 flights · limited
  • Saturdays54% on time · p90 65 min · 143 flights · limited
  • Mondays53% on time · p90 105 min · 144 flights · limited
  • Thursdays53% on time · p90 105 min · 145 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays51% on time · p90 100 min · 138 flights · limited
  • Fridays50% on time · p90 110 min · 147 flights · limited
  • Sundays46% on time · p90 120 min · 147 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.