OnTimeStats

Historical on-time performance

SEADFW

Seattle to Dallas-Fort Worth

1,660 miData through Dec 2025Source: US DOT · BTS

Flights on SEA–DFW arrive on time 74% of the time over the last 12 months.

On-time rate74%arrived within 15 min
Median delayon timetypical arrival
p90 delay45 min1 in 10 flights is worsetail risk
Cancelled1.7%of scheduled flights

based on 5,209 flights over the last 12 months. On-time means arriving within 15 minutes (BTS standard).

By airline

How each carrier compares

  • Delta Air Lines
    On-time73%
    Medianon time
    p9060 min
    Cancel0.9%
    Flights687
  • Alaska Airlines
    On-time72%
    Medianon time
    p9045 min
    Cancel0.9%
    Flights1,759
  • American Airlinesbest
    On-time75%
    Medianon time
    p9040 min
    Cancel2.4%
    Flights2,763

Why flights run late

Delay causes

  • Airline38%
  • Weather4%
  • Air traffic (NAS)21%
  • Late aircraft37%
  • Security0%

Most delay minutes here are attributed to Airline.

Over time

On-time trend

By season

On-time rate by month

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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.