Dallas Love Field in January 2024

70.4%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In January 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 6,037 domestic departures from Dallas Love Field (DAL). 70.4% left less than 15 minutes late and 73.6% reached their destination on time; 3.5% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 74.0% of flights departed on time and 72.9% arrived on time, so DAL departures were 3.6 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at DAL that month were on time 73.6% of the time (6,037 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 52%, air carrier 28% and national aviation system 18%.

On time 73.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 22.6%
Cancelled 3.5%
Diverted 0.2%

Every scheduled departure from DAL in January 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

January 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Jan 2024	Year earlier	DAL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jan 2024
Departed on time	70.4%	—	67.4%	74.0%
Arrived on time	73.6%	—	71.6%	72.9%
Cancelled	3.5%	—	1.4%	3.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.8 min	—	18.4 min	18.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	201	—	193	18,242
Scheduled departures	6,037	—	70,439	547,271

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	5,844	97%	73.5%	6.2 min	3.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	162	3%	81.5%	6.3 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	31	1%	61.3%	0.5 min	22.6%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DAL–HOU	Dallas to Houston	344	79.9%	0.9 min	4.9%
DAL–DEN	Dallas to Denver	281	72.2%	4.6 min	3.6%
DAL–PHX	Dallas to Phoenix	254	78.3%	1.7 min	2.8%
DAL–SAT	Dallas to San Antonio	248	75.8%	5.3 min	3.2%
DAL–MCO	Dallas to Orlando	242	72.3%	9.6 min	0.8%
DAL–LAS	Dallas to Las Vegas	240	70.0%	6.8 min	1.7%
DAL–ATL	Dallas to Atlanta	239	73.2%	11.3 min	1.3%
DAL–AUS	Dallas to Austin	224	75.0%	5.1 min	4.0%
DAL–MSY	Dallas to New Orleans	205	68.3%	7.5 min	3.4%
DAL–LAX	Dallas to Los Angeles	186	76.9%	-0.1 min	2.7%
DAL–BNA	Dallas to Nashville	180	73.3%	5.5 min	7.2%
DAL–STL	Dallas to St. Louis	178	77.5%	7.2 min	3.4%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), January 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jan 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	28.4%	32.6%	19,728
Late-arriving aircraft	51.6%	39.0%	35,813
National Aviation System	18.4%	17.9%	12,763
Extreme weather	1.4%	10.3%	999
Security	0.1%	0.2%	92

69,395 delay minutes on 1,367 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left DAL on time in January 2024?

70.4% of 6,037 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 73.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 74.0% and 72.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

January 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for January 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for DAL · methodology · corrections.