OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Dallas-Fort Worth to Knoxville

772 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on DFW–TYS arrive on time 66% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate66%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay75 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled3.0%of scheduled flights

based on 1,520 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Too close to call — no single carrier is clearly more on-time here.

  • PSA Airlines
    On-time69%
    Medianon time
    p9090 min
    Cancel2.0%
    Flights252
  • American Airlines
    On-time65%
    Medianon time
    p9075 min
    Cancel3.2%
    Flights1,268

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline24%
  • Weather7%
  • Air traffic (NAS)11%
  • Late aircraft58%
  • 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 → TYS

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 54% to 80% on time.

  • Mornings80% on time · p90 35 min · 545 flights
  • Middays78% on time · p90 40 min · 1,134 flights
  • Afternoons64% on time · p90 65 min · 1,085 flights
  • Evenings61% on time · p90 115 min · 394 flights
  • Overnights54% on time · p90 100 min · 1,054 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 65% to 73% on time.

  • Tuesdays73% on time · p90 55 min · 589 flights
  • Mondays68% on time · p90 70 min · 611 flights
  • Wednesdays68% on time · p90 75 min · 595 flights
  • Saturdays67% on time · p90 85 min · 602 flights
  • Sundays66% on time · p90 65 min · 607 flights
  • Thursdays65% on time · p90 80 min · 598 flights
  • Fridays65% on time · p90 75 min · 610 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.