On-time performance

Dallas Fort Worth International (DFW) on-time performance, September 2026

30,426 scheduled airline departures from Dallas-Fort Worth in September 2026, 72.8% of them on time. Measured from FAA departure data, updated every morning.

1 September to 30 September 2026 · KDFW · Free to quote with credit to PlaneTrack (CC BY 4.0)

30,426
departures
72.8%
on time (within 15 min)
13.3%
45+ min late
15.5 min
average departure delay

On time, day by day

Share of departures within 15 minutes of schedule, by day. Light bars show each day's departures for context. Worst day: Monday 21 September at 41.5%. Best: Tuesday 29 September at 87.0%.

60%80%100%2026-09-01: 992 departures, 80.0% on time2026-09-02: 988 departures, 77.1% on time2026-09-03: 1,061 departures, 67.8% on time2026-09-04: 1,075 departures, 65.6% on time2026-09-05: 980 departures, 72.7% on time2026-09-06: 935 departures, 82.7% on time2026-09-07: 1,034 departures, 78.7% on time2026-09-08: 942 departures, 85.9% on time2026-09-09: 982 departures, 77.6% on time2026-09-10: 1,047 departures, 62.8% on time2026-09-11: 1,064 departures, 53.8% on time2026-09-12: 994 departures, 69.9% on time2026-09-13: 1,033 departures, 72.9% on time2026-09-14: 1,049 departures, 71.2% on time2026-09-15: 998 departures, 78.1% on time2026-09-16: 1,006 departures, 81.8% on time2026-09-17: 1,057 departures, 74.1% on time2026-09-18: 1,075 departures, 67.2% on time2026-09-19: 997 departures, 76.5% on time2026-09-20: 1,027 departures, 60.0% on time2026-09-21: 1,025 departures, 41.5% on time2026-09-22: 956 departures, 58.5% on time2026-09-23: 996 departures, 80.5% on time2026-09-24: 1,058 departures, 76.0% on time2026-09-25: 1,075 departures, 78.1% on time2026-09-26: 990 departures, 82.4% on time2026-09-27: 1,028 departures, 77.0% on time2026-09-28: 1,050 departures, 77.6% on time2026-09-29: 947 departures, 87.0% on time2026-09-30: 965 departures, 73.9% on time2026-09-01: 80.0% on time (992 departures)012026-09-02: 77.1% on time (988 departures)2026-09-03: 67.8% on time (1,061 departures)2026-09-04: 65.6% on time (1,075 departures)042026-09-05: 72.7% on time (980 departures)2026-09-06: 82.7% on time (935 departures)2026-09-07: 78.7% on time (1,034 departures)072026-09-08: 85.9% on time (942 departures)2026-09-09: 77.6% on time (982 departures)2026-09-10: 62.8% on time (1,047 departures)102026-09-11: 53.8% on time (1,064 departures)2026-09-12: 69.9% on time (994 departures)2026-09-13: 72.9% on time (1,033 departures)132026-09-14: 71.2% on time (1,049 departures)2026-09-15: 78.1% on time (998 departures)2026-09-16: 81.8% on time (1,006 departures)162026-09-17: 74.1% on time (1,057 departures)2026-09-18: 67.2% on time (1,075 departures)2026-09-19: 76.5% on time (997 departures)192026-09-20: 60.0% on time (1,027 departures)2026-09-21: 41.5% on time (1,025 departures)2026-09-22: 58.5% on time (956 departures)222026-09-23: 80.5% on time (996 departures)2026-09-24: 76.0% on time (1,058 departures)2026-09-25: 78.1% on time (1,075 departures)252026-09-26: 82.4% on time (990 departures)2026-09-27: 77.0% on time (1,028 departures)2026-09-28: 77.6% on time (1,050 departures)282026-09-29: 87.0% on time (947 departures)2026-09-30: 73.9% on time (965 departures)30

Airlines at DFW, ranked by on-time share

Scheduled airlines with at least 30 departures from DFW in the month. Regional partners (SkyWest, Republic, Envoy and the like) appear under their own names; fractional and charter operators are in the totals but not listed.

AirlineDeparturesOn time45+ min lateAvg delay (min)
Federal Express FDX15999.4%0.0%-19.5
TAI TAI3497.1%0.0%-10.6
Korean Air KAL6095.0%1.7%-6.0
Mesa Airlines ASH3691.7%5.6%4.8
Martinaire MRA7887.2%1.3%-3.5
Key Lime Air LYM5186.3%5.9%7.6
Envoy Air ENY6,63983.6%6.6%4.7
Volaris VOI9783.5%3.1%0.3
Emirates UAE3482.4%0.0%6.8
JetBlue JBU8380.7%10.8%11.2
Delta Air Lines DAL93280.4%9.9%8.0
United Parcel Service UPS36280.4%9.7%1.9
Japan Airlines Domestic JAL3080.0%10.0%38.1
SkyWest SKW1,88578.5%10.0%12.1
Frontier Airlines FFT1,17977.4%12.2%13.7
PSA Airlines JIA1,41976.5%10.5%13.7
United Airlines UAL84974.7%13.9%18.0
Alaska Airlines ASA26374.1%8.4%13.4
FDY FDY10573.3%3.8%6.0
EVA Air EVA4772.3%19.1%26.6
Transportes Aereos I.R. Crusoe ROU6071.7%15.0%28.6
Corporate Flight Management VTE18368.9%20.2%22.6
Air Canada ACA3167.7%29.0%49.7
Cathay Pacific CPA4266.7%16.7%35.9
American Airlines AAL15,11265.9%17.6%21.9
Qatar Airways QTR7365.8%15.1%18.5
Atlas Air GTI4959.2%20.4%23.2
Aeroenlaces Nacionales VIV4852.1%10.4%24.1
Turkish Airlines THY3647.2%5.6%19.6
Ameriflight AMF3447.1%11.8%19.1
Qantas QFA4926.5%16.3%37.1

Destinations with the longest delays

Routes from DFW with at least 20 departures, by average departure delay.

ToFlightsOn timeAvg delay
HND Tokyo5971.2%51.6
ANC Anchorage9454.3%50.9
GRU Sao Paulo3053.3%48.6
IRK Kirksville2142.9%47.8
DUB Dublin2944.8%47.0
BOS Boston30051.0%40.4
MDT Harrisburg2828.6%39.7
FCO Rome2941.4%38.9
MAD Madrid4949.0%35.9
HEL Helsinki2650.0%35.7

Busiest destinations

The ten routes with the most departures from DFW this month.

ToFlightsOn timeAvg delay
ORD Chicago68767.5%24.3
LGA New York52367.1%21.4
LAX Los Angeles52173.5%12.6
ATL Atlanta51976.5%10.1
DEN Denver51770.4%20.9
IAH Houston51373.5%16.0
SEA Seattle45674.1%14.6
LAS Las Vegas43570.3%16.4
PHX Phoenix41270.9%16.5
SFO San Francisco40460.6%27.2

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Airline pages for September 2026

Federal ExpressKorean AirMesa AirlinesKey Lime AirEnvoy AirVolarisJetBlueDelta Air LinesUnited Parcel ServiceSkyWestFrontier AirlinesPSA AirlinesUnited AirlinesAlaska AirlinesFDYTransportes Aereos I.R. CrusoeCorporate Flight ManagementAir CanadaAmerican AirlinesQatar AirwaysAtlas AirTurkish AirlinesAmeriflight

All US airports and airlines, September 2026

How we measure

On time means the aircraft took off within 15 minutes of its scheduled departure, after subtracting the departure airport's normal taxi time at DFW (FAA SWIM reports wheels-off, not push-back, so the median taxi time of the last 30 days is taken off every flight first). Average delay is the mean of that taxi-adjusted delay over all departures; early departures count as negative minutes, so an operator that routinely leaves early can show a negative average. 45+ min late is the share of departures that left 45 minutes or more behind schedule, the point at which most connections are at risk.

Scope: scheduled airlines only, the same set as the monthly State of the Sky report (operators with published routes; private, fractional and charter operators are left out), so the two publications give the same numbers for the same month. Departures are counted by scheduled day (UTC). Each day's flights are rolled up overnight and published the next morning; the newest day keeps filling in for a day or two and is only shown once it is substantially complete. Figures can differ by a few tenths of a point from the State of the Sky report for the same month: that report is frozen on the 2nd of the following month, while these pages are rebuilt from the live rollup, which recomputes each airport's taxi baseline nightly and re-rolls the last week of the month as late departure times arrive (September 2026 at SFO: 16,398 departures in both, 69.2% on time here against 69.5% in the report).

Source: FAA System Wide Information Management (SWIM) flight plans and departure times, processed by PlaneTrack. Free to quote with credit to PlaneTrack (CC BY 4.0).