OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

Seattle to Dallas

1,670 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SEA–DAL arrive on time 51% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate51%arrived within 15 min
p90 delay55 min1 in 10 flights is worse (tail risk)
Cancelled0.0%of scheduled flights

based on 127 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Southwest Airlines
    On-time51%
    Median10 min
    p9055 min
    Cancel0.0%
    Flights127

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline33%
  • Weather0%
  • Air traffic (NAS)17%
  • Late aircraft49%
  • Security1%

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 SEA → DAL

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 69% to 84% on time.

  • Mornings84% on time · p90 20 min · 544 flights
  • Evenings82% on time · p90 25 min · 83 flights · limited
  • Middays69% on time · p90 45 min · 400 flights

Best day of week

On-time rates are fairly even by day on this route — ranging from 70% to 83% on time.

  • Wednesdays83% on time · p90 25 min · 152 flights · limited
  • Tuesdays81% on time · p90 20 min · 131 flights · limited
  • Sundays77% on time · p90 30 min · 170 flights · limited
  • Thursdays76% on time · p90 30 min · 150 flights · limited
  • Mondays76% on time · p90 30 min · 153 flights · limited
  • Fridays74% on time · p90 30 min · 152 flights · limited
  • Saturdays70% on time · p90 50 min · 163 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.