Dallas/Fort Worth International in September 2023

78.2%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 September 2023, reporting carriers scheduled 24,533 domestic departures from Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW). 78.2% left less than 15 minutes late and 77.2% reached their destination on time; 0.6% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.1% arrived on time, so DFW departures were 2.3 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at DFW that month were on time 80.6% of the time (24,531 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 43%, air carrier 33% and national aviation system 18%.

On time 77.2%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 21.8%
Cancelled 0.6%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Sep 2023	Year earlier	DFW, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Sep 2023
Departed on time	78.2%	—	69.1%	80.5%
Arrived on time	77.2%	—	69.9%	80.1%
Cancelled	0.6%	—	2.8%	1.2%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	16.2 min	—	22.3 min	14.1 min
Scheduled departures a day	818	—	856	18,978
Scheduled departures	24,533	—	312,515	569,338

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AA American Airlines	13,264	54%	75.2%	9.7 min	0.5%
MQ Envoy Air	4,962	20%	84.6%	0.2 min	0.3%
OO SkyWest Airlines	2,395	10%	78.5%	8.3 min	1.1%
DL Delta Air Lines	902	4%	81.6%	7.2 min	1.2%
UA United Airlines	768	3%	75.5%	15.3 min	1.4%
NK Spirit Airlines	757	3%	74.0%	11.0 min	0.8%
F9 Frontier Airlines	694	3%	61.4%	26.4 min	1.6%
OH PSA Airlines	552	2%	80.3%	13.3 min	0.9%
AS Alaska Airlines	209	1%	66.5%	15.9 min	0.5%
B6 JetBlue Airways	30	0%	46.7%	72.0 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DFW–LAX	Dallas/Fort Worth to Los Angeles	557	74.5%	7.6 min	0.2%
DFW–ATL	Dallas/Fort Worth to Atlanta	522	83.1%	1.5 min	0.2%
DFW–ORD	Dallas/Fort Worth to Chicago	519	83.0%	7.9 min	0.4%
DFW–DEN	Dallas/Fort Worth to Denver	498	71.5%	11.0 min	0.6%
DFW–LAS	Dallas/Fort Worth to Las Vegas	484	66.9%	15.9 min	0.6%
DFW–LGA	Dallas/Fort Worth to New York	480	74.8%	6.2 min	2.9%
DFW–AUS	Dallas/Fort Worth to Austin	429	77.9%	7.1 min	0.5%
DFW–IAH	Dallas/Fort Worth to Houston	425	76.0%	13.2 min	0.0%
DFW–SEA	Dallas/Fort Worth to Seattle	387	70.5%	15.7 min	0.3%
DFW–PHX	Dallas/Fort Worth to Phoenix	380	68.2%	16.1 min	0.5%
DFW–MCO	Dallas/Fort Worth to Orlando	373	72.4%	16.6 min	1.1%
DFW–SFO	Dallas/Fort Worth to San Francisco	324	71.0%	11.7 min	0.3%

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), September 2023.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Sep 2023	Minutes
Air carrier	32.8%	36.4%	124,162
Late-arriving aircraft	42.9%	38.3%	162,230
National Aviation System	17.9%	19.9%	67,535
Extreme weather	6.3%	5.1%	23,675
Security	0.1%	0.2%	510

378,112 delay minutes on 5,353 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 September 2023?

78.2% of 24,533 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 77.2% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

September 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 September 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.