OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Ontario to Dallas-Fort Worth

1,188 miData through May 2026Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on ONT–DFW arrive on time 76% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate76%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled2.9%of scheduled flights

based on 2,094 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

Not enough comparable data to name a most-on-time carrier — low-data carriers aren't ranked.

  • Frontier Airlines
    On-time85%
    Medianon time
    p9015 min
    Cancel3.2%
    Flights94
  • American Airlines
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel2.9%
    Flights2,000

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline43%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)10%
  • Late aircraft43%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

When flights don't go

Why flights were cancelled

  • Airline12%
  • Weather85%
  • Air traffic (NAS)3%
  • Security0%

Most cancellations here are attributed to Weather. Shares are among 60 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 ONT → DFW

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

Best time of day

Mornings are the most reliable time of day to fly this route — 85% on time.

  • Mornings85% on time · p90 20 min · 2,494 flights
  • Overnights82% on time · p90 25 min · 821 flights
  • Early mornings80% on time · p90 50 min · 149 flights · limited
  • Middays73% on time · p90 60 min · 2,128 flights
  • Evenings70% on time · p90 55 min · 228 flights
  • Afternoons68% on time · p90 50 min · 1,249 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 76% to 80% on time.

  • Thursdays80% on time · p90 35 min · 1,051 flights
  • Tuesdays78% on time · p90 30 min · 959 flights
  • Mondays78% on time · p90 40 min · 1,028 flights
  • Saturdays77% on time · p90 40 min · 991 flights
  • Wednesdays77% on time · p90 50 min · 943 flights
  • Sundays77% on time · p90 45 min · 1,068 flights
  • Fridays76% on time · p90 50 min · 1,029 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.