Dallas/Fort Worth International in March 2024

69.9%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 25,567 domestic departures from Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW). 69.9% left less than 15 minutes late and 70.1% reached their destination on time; 1.7% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 78.5% of flights departed on time and 78.3% arrived on time, so DFW departures were 8.6 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at DFW that month were on time 73.4% of the time (25,564 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 52%, air carrier 26% and national aviation system 14%.

On time 70.1%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 27.9%
Cancelled 1.7%
Diverted 0.3%

Every scheduled departure from DFW 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	DFW, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Mar 2024
Departed on time	69.9%	—	69.1%	78.5%
Arrived on time	70.1%	—	69.9%	78.3%
Cancelled	1.7%	—	2.8%	0.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	22.4 min	—	22.3 min	15.7 min
Scheduled departures a day	852	—	856	19,726
Scheduled departures	25,567	—	312,515	591,767

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AA American Airlines	14,031	55%	64.3%	22.0 min	1.6%
MQ Envoy Air	6,052	24%	78.7%	3.7 min	1.9%
OO SkyWest Airlines	1,204	5%	80.9%	0.0 min	2.7%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,002	4%	82.4%	6.7 min	0.1%
NK Spirit Airlines	828	3%	63.3%	19.0 min	1.6%
OH PSA Airlines	821	3%	76.2%	9.7 min	2.2%
F9 Frontier Airlines	782	3%	66.6%	25.0 min	2.9%
UA United Airlines	659	3%	79.1%	9.5 min	0.8%
AS Alaska Airlines	155	1%	85.8%	-1.5 min	1.3%
B6 JetBlue Airways	31	0%	54.8%	55.7 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	2	0%	100.0%	-18.5 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DFW–LAS	Dallas/Fort Worth to Las Vegas	573	61.4%	25.4 min	1.9%
DFW–ATL	Dallas/Fort Worth to Atlanta	555	68.3%	25.0 min	1.4%
DFW–LAX	Dallas/Fort Worth to Los Angeles	552	69.7%	12.3 min	0.4%
DFW–LGA	Dallas/Fort Worth to New York	514	72.8%	12.4 min	1.2%
DFW–DEN	Dallas/Fort Worth to Denver	504	71.0%	17.5 min	3.2%
DFW–ORD	Dallas/Fort Worth to Chicago	491	77.8%	6.7 min	0.6%
DFW–PHX	Dallas/Fort Worth to Phoenix	485	66.8%	20.9 min	1.4%
DFW–MCO	Dallas/Fort Worth to Orlando	484	57.2%	34.5 min	1.7%
DFW–AUS	Dallas/Fort Worth to Austin	465	66.7%	23.5 min	1.5%
DFW–IAH	Dallas/Fort Worth to Houston	421	70.5%	17.9 min	1.0%
DFW–MIA	Dallas/Fort Worth to Miami	420	54.8%	33.7 min	3.1%
DFW–SAT	Dallas/Fort Worth to San Antonio	351	65.0%	24.8 min	1.4%

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), March 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Mar 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	26.0%	32.1%	138,003
Late-arriving aircraft	51.5%	42.1%	272,967
National Aviation System	14.3%	21.4%	75,527
Extreme weather	8.1%	4.2%	42,949
Security	0.1%	0.2%	394

529,840 delay minutes on 7,126 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 March 2024?

69.9% of 25,567 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 70.1% 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 DFW · methodology · corrections.