Dallas/Fort Worth International in August 2023

72.8%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 August 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 26,370 domestic departures from Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW). 72.8% left less than 15 minutes late and 75.1% reached their destination on time; 0.9% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 76.7% of flights departed on time and 76.9% arrived on time, so DFW departures were 3.9 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at DFW that month were on time 79.4% of the time (26,371 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 54%, air carrier 37% and national aviation system 8%.

On time 75.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 23.8%
Cancelled 0.9%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from DFW in August 2023, judged by arrival at the destination.

August 2023 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	Aug 2023	Year earlier	DFW, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Aug 2023
Departed on time	72.8%	—	69.1%	76.7%
Arrived on time	75.1%	—	69.9%	76.9%
Cancelled	0.9%	—	2.8%	1.5%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	23.3 min	—	22.3 min	17.3 min
Scheduled departures a day	879	—	856	20,100
Scheduled departures	26,370	—	312,515	602,987

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AA American Airlines	14,948	57%	68.6%	21.6 min	0.9%
MQ Envoy Air	5,076	19%	88.2%	-2.2 min	0.1%
OO SkyWest Airlines	2,337	9%	86.8%	-0.7 min	0.7%
DL Delta Air Lines	953	4%	83.7%	-1.4 min	1.6%
NK Spirit Airlines	812	3%	69.8%	16.2 min	0.6%
UA United Airlines	775	3%	80.4%	6.0 min	1.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	631	2%	60.9%	23.8 min	4.9%
OH PSA Airlines	572	2%	82.7%	2.7 min	0.7%
AS Alaska Airlines	235	1%	71.1%	15.1 min	1.3%
B6 JetBlue Airways	31	0%	51.6%	66.3 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DFW–LAX	Dallas/Fort Worth to Los Angeles	604	66.6%	21.3 min	0.7%
DFW–ATL	Dallas/Fort Worth to Atlanta	580	73.1%	10.7 min	2.4%
DFW–DEN	Dallas/Fort Worth to Denver	532	65.6%	22.6 min	1.7%
DFW–LGA	Dallas/Fort Worth to New York	507	83.6%	-4.4 min	0.6%
DFW–ORD	Dallas/Fort Worth to Chicago	504	76.0%	11.0 min	0.8%
DFW–LAS	Dallas/Fort Worth to Las Vegas	461	58.8%	36.0 min	1.1%
DFW–IAH	Dallas/Fort Worth to Houston	458	75.3%	13.8 min	0.7%
DFW–SEA	Dallas/Fort Worth to Seattle	427	70.5%	13.4 min	0.7%
DFW–AUS	Dallas/Fort Worth to Austin	420	73.1%	14.1 min	1.0%
DFW–MCO	Dallas/Fort Worth to Orlando	395	66.3%	25.8 min	1.0%
DFW–PHX	Dallas/Fort Worth to Phoenix	394	67.5%	22.1 min	0.8%
DFW–SFO	Dallas/Fort Worth to San Francisco	364	65.7%	23.7 min	1.1%

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), August 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Aug 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	36.8%	36.7%	198,869
Late-arriving aircraft	54.0%	42.2%	291,828
National Aviation System	7.7%	15.7%	41,781
Extreme weather	1.3%	5.1%	7,251
Security	0.2%	0.2%	816

540,545 delay minutes on 6,271 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 DFW on time in August 2023?

72.8% of 26,370 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 75.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 76.7% and 76.9%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

August 2022 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 August 2023; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for DFW · methodology · corrections.