Dallas Love Field in March 2024

73.2%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 March 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 6,272 domestic departures from Dallas Love Field (DAL). 73.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 76.5% reached their destination on time; 0.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so DAL departures were 5.3 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at DAL that month were on time 77.2% of the time (6,272 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 49%, air carrier 25% and national aviation system 20%.

On time 76.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 22.7%
Cancelled 0.7%
Diverted 0.1%

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

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

Measure	Mar 2024	Year earlier	DAL, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	73.2%	—	67.4%	78.5%
Arrived on time	76.5%	—	71.6%	78.3%
Cancelled	0.7%	—	1.4%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	14.8 min	—	18.4 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	209	—	193	19,726
Scheduled departures	6,272	—	70,439	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	6,065	97%	76.2%	6.7 min	0.8%
DL Delta Air Lines	176	3%	84.7%	-1.9 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	31	0%	87.1%	-13.7 min	3.2%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DAL–HOU	Dallas to Houston	358	75.1%	5.9 min	2.2%
DAL–DEN	Dallas to Denver	276	77.9%	4.1 min	1.8%
DAL–ATL	Dallas to Atlanta	261	78.5%	3.4 min	0.0%
DAL–PHX	Dallas to Phoenix	258	74.8%	7.3 min	0.4%
DAL–LAS	Dallas to Las Vegas	253	76.7%	7.7 min	0.8%
DAL–SAT	Dallas to San Antonio	252	79.8%	4.2 min	0.0%
DAL–MCO	Dallas to Orlando	240	64.6%	17.0 min	2.9%
DAL–AUS	Dallas to Austin	225	79.1%	3.4 min	0.0%
DAL–MSY	Dallas to New Orleans	201	77.1%	8.9 min	0.0%
DAL–BNA	Dallas to Nashville	194	80.4%	3.3 min	0.0%
DAL–LAX	Dallas to Los Angeles	184	82.6%	2.3 min	1.1%
DAL–MCI	Dallas to Kansas City	176	80.7%	5.9 min	0.6%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	24.8%	32.1%	19,190
Late-arriving aircraft	49.3%	42.1%	38,148
National Aviation System	20.1%	21.4%	15,575
Extreme weather	5.6%	4.2%	4,358
Security	0.1%	0.2%	47

77,318 delay minutes on 1,422 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 March 2024?

73.2% of 6,272 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 76.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 78.5% and 78.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

March 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 March 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.