WN34

Between its first and last recorded date on HOU → DAL, WN34 averaged about 4 operations a week (722 in 1,154 days, cancelled ones included).

WN34 arrived on time 77.7% of the time, against 81.4% for all HOU → DAL flights, so this departure is 3.7 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against Southwest Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 3.7 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 722 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If WN34 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

WN34 cancelled 12 of 722 operations (1.66%), close to the 2.02% for HOU → DAL.

8.5% of WN34’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 6.1% across HOU → DAL, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for WN34 on HOU → DAL. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026

The aircraft flying WN34 came in 15 or more minutes late on 13% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.

Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into HOU: 676 of 710 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026

WN34 pushes back an average of 15.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at DAL an average of 9.4 minutes late. The 5.7 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. Its 13.2 minutes on the taxiways at HOU is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at DAL, WN34 spends 4.9 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at DAL spends on the ground before reaching the gate.

Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 11,510 HOU departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 229,763 arrivals at DAL. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026

WN34 is scheduled out of HOU at 2:30 PM, in the 2 PM–3 PM bank. Departures from HOU in that hour arrive on time 71.1% of the time against 78.7% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.7 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

Both airport figures cover every destination from HOU, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.

The figures above describe only HOU → DAL, the route WN34 flies now.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026

Among all 5 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, WN34 has the 3rd highest on-time rate, 17.5 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.

• WN52 HOU→DAL Southwest Airlines on the same route, departs 7:00 PM, on time 73.5%
• WN54 HOU→DAL Southwest Airlines on the same route, departs 8:30 PM, on time 72.7%
• WN1636 HOU→DAL Southwest Airlines on the same route, departs 6:00 AM, on time 94.6%