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Airport month · April 2024

Dallas/Fort Worth International in April 2024

71.5%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 April 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 24,911 domestic departures from Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW). 71.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 70.7% reached their destination on time; 2.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 80.5% of flights departed on time and 80.2% arrived on time, so DFW departures were 9.0 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at DFW that month were on time 72.6% of the time (24,902 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, air carrier 25% and national aviation system 15%.

Every scheduled departure from DFW in April 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

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

MeasureApr 2024Year earlierDFW, 12 months to Jul 2026All reported flights, Apr 2024
Departed on time71.5%—69.1%80.5%
Arrived on time70.7%—69.9%80.2%
Cancelled2.3%—2.8%0.7%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)21.1 min—22.3 min14.2 min
Scheduled departures a day830—85619,406
Scheduled departures24,911—312,515582,185

Airlines that month

Reporting carrierFlightsShareOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
AA American Airlines13,27453%66.4%19.0 min2.0%
MQ Envoy Air5,67423%77.2%6.0 min2.7%
OO SkyWest Airlines1,6517%78.7%7.0 min3.0%
DL Delta Air Lines9914%78.2%11.0 min0.5%
F9 Frontier Airlines9044%62.6%32.2 min3.2%
OH PSA Airlines8243%70.3%26.4 min5.1%
NK Spirit Airlines7543%77.5%5.8 min1.1%
UA United Airlines6393%75.9%6.1 min1.6%
AS Alaska Airlines1661%68.1%15.7 min0.6%
B6 JetBlue Airways300%60.0%13.2 min3.3%
YX Republic Airline40%75.0%53.8 min0.0%

Busiest routes that month

RouteCitiesFlightsOn timeAvg arrival delayCancelled
DFW–LAXDallas/Fort Worth to Los Angeles58469.5%14.7 min0.3%
DFW–LGADallas/Fort Worth to New York54775.9%10.0 min1.8%
DFW–ATLDallas/Fort Worth to Atlanta52969.4%16.5 min1.3%
DFW–LASDallas/Fort Worth to Las Vegas52271.8%11.9 min1.9%
DFW–DENDallas/Fort Worth to Denver51066.7%26.4 min1.2%
DFW–ORDDallas/Fort Worth to Chicago49970.9%14.5 min1.4%
DFW–PHXDallas/Fort Worth to Phoenix45767.2%21.8 min1.8%
DFW–MCODallas/Fort Worth to Orlando41365.9%25.0 min3.1%
DFW–AUSDallas/Fort Worth to Austin40869.6%15.1 min2.5%
DFW–IAHDallas/Fort Worth to Houston40669.0%16.7 min2.7%
DFW–MIADallas/Fort Worth to Miami36967.8%13.8 min3.0%
DFW–SATDallas/Fort Worth to San Antonio35561.4%22.6 min1.7%

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), April 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause categoryShare of delay minutesNational, Apr 2024Minutes
Air carrier24.6%33.6%122,387
Late-arriving aircraft46.9%41.0%233,611
National Aviation System14.9%20.0%74,377
Extreme weather13.6%5.1%67,667
Security0.1%0.2%440
498,482 delay minutes on 6,679 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.
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Questions and answers

How many flights left DFW on time in April 2024?

71.5% of 24,911 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 70.7% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 80.5% and 80.2%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

April 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 April 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.