Dallas/Fort Worth International in July 2024

61.5%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 July 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 29,084 domestic departures from Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW). 61.5% left less than 15 minutes late and 61.6% reached their destination on time; 1.8% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 68.5% of flights departed on time and 68.1% arrived on time, so DFW departures were 7.0 points below the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at DFW that month were on time 66.6% of the time (29,080 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 53%, air carrier 34% and national aviation system 12%.

On time 61.6%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 36.3%
Cancelled 1.8%
Diverted 0.3%

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

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

Measure	Jul 2024	Year earlier	DFW, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, Jul 2024
Departed on time	61.5%	—	69.1%	68.5%
Arrived on time	61.6%	—	69.9%	68.1%
Cancelled	1.8%	—	2.8%	2.9%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	30.3 min	—	22.3 min	24.9 min
Scheduled departures a day	970	—	856	21,154
Scheduled departures	29,084	—	312,515	634,613

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
AA American Airlines	15,204	52%	54.7%	33.0 min	1.6%
MQ Envoy Air	6,886	24%	68.7%	11.9 min	0.8%
OO SkyWest Airlines	2,115	7%	82.4%	3.7 min	0.5%
DL Delta Air Lines	1,061	4%	68.4%	17.7 min	7.0%
NK Spirit Airlines	1,052	4%	61.1%	22.9 min	2.9%
F9 Frontier Airlines	975	3%	59.8%	23.1 min	4.8%
OH PSA Airlines	816	3%	64.6%	30.3 min	3.4%
UA United Airlines	691	2%	70.6%	18.7 min	3.9%
AS Alaska Airlines	244	1%	56.6%	22.8 min	2.0%
B6 JetBlue Airways	31	0%	45.2%	59.6 min	0.0%
YX Republic Airline	9	0%	88.9%	-19.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
DFW–LAX	Dallas/Fort Worth to Los Angeles	634	58.5%	33.6 min	1.7%
DFW–ATL	Dallas/Fort Worth to Atlanta	583	58.7%	25.0 min	6.2%
DFW–ORD	Dallas/Fort Worth to Chicago	570	61.1%	22.5 min	1.9%
DFW–DEN	Dallas/Fort Worth to Denver	568	66.7%	17.4 min	3.3%
DFW–LGA	Dallas/Fort Worth to New York	566	67.8%	9.0 min	3.2%
DFW–SEA	Dallas/Fort Worth to Seattle	520	58.7%	23.9 min	1.7%
DFW–LAS	Dallas/Fort Worth to Las Vegas	508	50.4%	38.6 min	1.2%
DFW–MIA	Dallas/Fort Worth to Miami	445	64.3%	25.2 min	0.9%
DFW–PHX	Dallas/Fort Worth to Phoenix	436	54.8%	35.4 min	0.5%
DFW–SAT	Dallas/Fort Worth to San Antonio	435	47.8%	45.6 min	3.0%
DFW–IAH	Dallas/Fort Worth to Houston	424	53.5%	35.0 min	7.5%
DFW–MCO	Dallas/Fort Worth to Orlando	421	51.3%	29.4 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), July 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, Jul 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	33.6%	36.6%	274,580
Late-arriving aircraft	53.1%	42.7%	434,191
National Aviation System	11.6%	16.0%	94,519
Extreme weather	1.7%	4.6%	13,520
Security	0.1%	0.1%	806

817,616 delay minutes on 10,548 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 July 2024?

61.5% of 29,084 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 61.6% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 68.5% and 68.1%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

July 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 July 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.