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Airport month · May 2024
Dallas/Fort Worth International in May 2024
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 May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 27,111 domestic departures from Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW). 56.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 54.1% reached their destination on time; 6.4% were cancelled.
Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so DFW departures were 16.9 points below the national departure figure.
Flights arriving at DFW that month were on time 58.3% of the time (27,104 scheduled arrivals).
Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 47%, air carrier 26% and extreme weather 14%.
- On time 54.1%
- Arrived 15+ minutes late 39.2%
- Cancelled 6.4%
- Diverted 0.4%
May 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation
| Measure | May 2024 | Year earlier | DFW, 12 months to Jul 2026 | All reported flights, May 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departed on time | 56.5% | — | 69.1% | 73.4% |
| Arrived on time | 54.1% | — | 69.9% | 72.3% |
| Cancelled | 6.4% | — | 2.8% | 1.4% |
| Average departure delay (late minutes only) | 36.9 min | — | 22.3 min | 20.8 min |
| Scheduled departures a day | 904 | — | 856 | 20,325 |
| Scheduled departures | 27,111 | — | 312,515 | 609,743 |
Airlines that month
| Reporting carrier | Flights | Share | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA American Airlines | 14,606 | 54% | 47.3% | 41.2 min | 7.9% |
| MQ Envoy Air | 6,008 | 22% | 61.2% | 20.2 min | 5.4% |
| OO SkyWest Airlines | 1,739 | 6% | 70.6% | 16.3 min | 5.9% |
| F9 Frontier Airlines | 1,072 | 4% | 53.4% | 35.3 min | 4.9% |
| DL Delta Air Lines | 1,025 | 4% | 70.1% | 31.8 min | 0.3% |
| NK Spirit Airlines | 900 | 3% | 59.8% | 31.2 min | 2.1% |
| OH PSA Airlines | 823 | 3% | 61.8% | 32.5 min | 5.2% |
| UA United Airlines | 689 | 3% | 57.0% | 43.2 min | 3.3% |
| AS Alaska Airlines | 217 | 1% | 53.0% | 34.3 min | 3.2% |
| B6 JetBlue Airways | 31 | 0% | 35.5% | 49.8 min | 0.0% |
| YX Republic Airline | 1 | 0% | 100.0% | -10.0 min | 0.0% |
Busiest routes that month
| Route | Cities | Flights | On time | Avg arrival delay | Cancelled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFW–LAX | Dallas/Fort Worth to Los Angeles | 653 | 49.6% | 36.7 min | 4.9% |
| DFW–LAS | Dallas/Fort Worth to Las Vegas | 577 | 48.5% | 40.2 min | 5.5% |
| DFW–LGA | Dallas/Fort Worth to New York | 566 | 62.7% | 23.7 min | 5.1% |
| DFW–ATL | Dallas/Fort Worth to Atlanta | 551 | 55.7% | 36.6 min | 3.8% |
| DFW–DEN | Dallas/Fort Worth to Denver | 550 | 45.6% | 48.2 min | 6.2% |
| DFW–ORD | Dallas/Fort Worth to Chicago | 521 | 50.3% | 39.0 min | 4.4% |
| DFW–PHX | Dallas/Fort Worth to Phoenix | 473 | 45.7% | 49.0 min | 5.5% |
| DFW–IAH | Dallas/Fort Worth to Houston | 459 | 44.7% | 44.6 min | 10.0% |
| DFW–MIA | Dallas/Fort Worth to Miami | 445 | 56.4% | 39.4 min | 4.5% |
| DFW–MCO | Dallas/Fort Worth to Orlando | 431 | 51.7% | 40.1 min | 4.2% |
| DFW–AUS | Dallas/Fort Worth to Austin | 427 | 47.8% | 39.5 min | 9.1% |
| DFW–SEA | Dallas/Fort Worth to Seattle | 400 | 50.5% | 36.6 min | 6.3% |
By scheduled departure hour
Delay causes
Questions and answers
How many flights left DFW on time in May 2024?
56.5% of 27,111 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 54.1% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.
How does that compare with a year earlier?
May 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 May 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.