OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

New York to Dallas-Fort Worth

1,391 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on JFK–DFW arrive on time 71% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate71%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay70 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.1%of scheduled flights

based on 2,010 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.

  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9055 min
    Cancel1.1%
    Flights92
  • American Airlines
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9065 min
    Cancel1.8%
    Flights1,318
  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time66%
    Medianon time
    p9080 min
    Cancel3.0%
    Flights600

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline29%
  • Weather2%
  • Air traffic (NAS)31%
  • Late aircraft38%
  • 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 JFK → DFW

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 53% to 82% on time.

  • Mornings82% on time · p90 30 min · 2,163 flights
  • Middays79% on time · p90 35 min · 506 flights
  • Afternoons71% on time · p90 65 min · 1,780 flights
  • Evenings65% on time · p90 90 min · 1,402 flights
  • Overnights53% on time · p90 110 min · 90 flights · limited

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 70% to 79% on time.

  • Tuesdays79% on time · p90 45 min · 861 flights
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 55 min · 853 flights
  • Wednesdays76% on time · p90 55 min · 852 flights
  • Fridays73% on time · p90 75 min · 846 flights
  • Sundays72% on time · p90 60 min · 861 flights
  • Thursdays72% on time · p90 70 min · 853 flights
  • Saturdays70% on time · p90 75 min · 815 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.