OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Fort Lauderdale to Dallas

1,108 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on FLL–DAL arrive on time 74% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate74%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay40 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled1.6%of scheduled flights

based on 641 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time74%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel1.6%
    Flights641

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline26%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)17%
  • Late aircraft55%
  • 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 FLL → DAL

All airlines · rolling 36 months (2023-01 .. 2025-12).

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 90% on time.

  • Mornings90% on time · p90 10 min · 945 flights
  • Middays69% on time · p90 50 min · 297 flights
  • Afternoons64% on time · p90 70 min · 229 flights
  • Overnights61% on time · p90 115 min · 67 flights · limited
  • Evenings53% on time · p90 90 min · 793 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 64% to 76% on time.

  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 45 min · 312 flights
  • Tuesdays74% on time · p90 35 min · 282 flights
  • Fridays73% on time · p90 40 min · 313 flights
  • Wednesdays73% on time · p90 55 min · 278 flights
  • Mondays72% on time · p90 40 min · 313 flights
  • Saturdays71% on time · p90 60 min · 435 flights
  • Sundays64% on time · p90 75 min · 398 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.