AUS → DFW Flight Reliability

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Route reliability

July 2023 – July 2026

Route Reliability Score

45/ 100Weak

Better than 9% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)

Calculated from 14,934 flights. How this is calculated

On-time arrivals

75.3%

10,931 of 14,513

Cancellation rate

2.75%

410 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-5 min

Average 21.3 min

Severe delays

10.9%

60+ minutes late

Delay when late

112 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Flights analyzed

14,934

3 carriers

AUS → DFW arrives on time 75.3% of the time; the return trip, DFW → AUS, arrives on time 70.6% of the time, a 4.7-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.

AUS → DFW spends 29.5 minutes on the ground on a 190-mile trip: 16.8 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at AUS and 12.6 minutes from touchdown to gate at DFW.

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

What stands out

This route's worst arrivals run unusually far past its typical one, a bigger gap than 90% of 4,598 comparable routes.

A typical arrival is 5 min early, but the worst tenth run 71 minutes worse than that.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 4,598 in the comparison.

Why AUS → DFW flights are cancelled

July 2023 – July 2026

AUS → DFW cancelled 410 of 14,934 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 36. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 86.6% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 42 scheduled flights.

Share of cancellations

Weather86.6%

Airline8.3%

Air traffic5.1%

Security0.0%

Of 410 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

Extreme weather1 in 42

Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.

355 cancellations, 86.6% of the total.

The airline1 in 439

Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.

34 cancellations, 8.3% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 711

Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.

21 cancellations, 5.1% of the total.

Security—

A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.

0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.

Reason codes are the operating airline’s own filing with US DOT, not an independent finding of fault. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.

410 coded cancellations were recorded on AUS → DFW; the section appears from 50.

When it goes wrong

July 2023 – July 2026

One arrival in ten is worse than

66 min late

against a median of 5 min early

Arrived an hour or more late10.9%

Typical delay when late112 min

Cancelled2.75%

Landed somewhere else0.07%

AUS → DFW has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 5 min early, but the worst tenth are 71 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.

Percentiles over 14,934 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.

Will your connection be tight enough?

Layovers at DFW after arriving from AUS.

Connection buffer and chance of missing by layover length, AUS → DFW arrivals
Connection time	Chance of missing	Reads as
30 min	40%	Likely to miss
45 min	24%	High risk
60 min	17%	High risk
90 min	11%	Some risk
120 min	7.7%	Some risk

This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 2.75% of the time and diverts 0.07% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.

Chance of missing is the share of 14,513 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.

The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 66 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 14,934 operations.

Any other layover length: connection checker.

Best time to fly

AUS → DFW flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 85.0% of the time, against 64.4% for 3–6 PM departures, a gap of 20.6 percentage points.

By day and hour

On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time at the departure airport (AUS).

Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 9.2 points from the route-wide rate, weekday averages 2.9 points.

On-time arrival rate for AUS to DFW by weekday and scheduled departure hour, local time. Each button reads out one slot.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
5 AM–6 AM
6 AM–7 AM
7 AM–8 AM
8 AM–9 AM
9 AM–10 AM
10 AM–11 AM
11 AM–12 PM
12 PM–1 PM
1 PM–2 PM
2 PM–3 PM
3 PM–4 PM
4 PM–5 PM
5 PM–6 PM
6 PM–7 PM
7 PM–8 PM
8 PM–9 PM

On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time

40–49
50–59
60–69
70–79
80–89
90–99

Fewer than 120 flights, not scored

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · On time is arrival within 15 minutes of schedule. Cells round to whole percentages; the table shows one decimal.

No slot is named best or worst: too few reach 500 flights. Departures after 9 PM (20 flights) are not drawn: no slot in those hours has enough flights to score.

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On-time arrival rate (%) with flights beneath, by scheduled departure hour and weekday for AUS to DFW. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
5 AM–6 AM	90.7% on time157 flights	93.8% on time130 flights	96.7% on time128 flights	93.3% on time153 flights	88.9% on time158 flights	89.1% on time140 flights	89.2% on time144 flights
6 AM–7 AM	84.1% on time168 flights	89.0% on time168 flights	88.0% on time171 flights	85.3% on time165 flights	88.9% on time167 flights	87.7% on time168 flights	87.1% on time168 flights
7 AM–8 AM	80.6% on time130 flights	87.6% on time132 flights	87.1% on time129 flights	82.9% on time130 flights	83.5% on time130 flights	78.7% on time124 flights	81.9% on time130 flights
8 AM–9 AM	77.8% on time143 flights	79.7% on time140 flights	83.9% on time142 flights	80.0% on time143 flights	77.4% on time141 flights	71.8% on time143 flights	70.7% on time142 flights
9 AM–10 AM	115 flights, too few to score	115 flights, too few to score	114 flights, too few to score	111 flights, too few to score	115 flights, too few to score	95 flights, too few to score	115 flights, too few to score
10 AM–11 AM	81.8% on time137 flights	87.6% on time141 flights	81.9% on time141 flights	83.8% on time137 flights	80.5% on time137 flights	78.5% on time141 flights	84.2% on time136 flights
11 AM–12 PM	101 flights, too few to score	100 flights, too few to score	91 flights, too few to score	95 flights, too few to score	98 flights, too few to score	86 flights, too few to score	98 flights, too few to score
12 PM–1 PM	75.3% on time164 flights	81.9% on time164 flights	78.8% on time164 flights	75.2% on time161 flights	70.7% on time162 flights	77.6% on time126 flights	75.8% on time162 flights
1 PM–2 PM	75.4% on time123 flights	76.0% on time130 flights	81.7% on time124 flights	79.7% on time125 flights	75.6% on time127 flights	100 flights, too few to score	71.3% on time129 flights
2 PM–3 PM	68.7% on time149 flights	75.7% on time147 flights	72.9% on time143 flights	69.8% on time143 flights	74.3% on time145 flights	81.7% on time137 flights	71.5% on time146 flights
3 PM–4 PM	68.9% on time137 flights	72.1% on time126 flights	74.8% on time129 flights	59.0% on time141 flights	64.0% on time139 flights	103 flights, too few to score	62.4% on time144 flights
4 PM–5 PM	67.2% on time177 flights	69.8% on time168 flights	68.1% on time165 flights	60.2% on time169 flights	65.7% on time175 flights	58.3% on time148 flights	52.5% on time168 flights
5 PM–6 PM	60.4% on time147 flights	74.2% on time132 flights	70.2% on time125 flights	53.8% on time148 flights	62.6% on time147 flights	110 flights, too few to score	55.0% on time154 flights
6 PM–7 PM	59.2% on time174 flights	65.7% on time172 flights	67.5% on time171 flights	60.0% on time168 flights	57.6% on time171 flights	71.2% on time149 flights	49.4% on time172 flights
7 PM–8 PM	80 flights, too few to score	53 flights, too few to score	53 flights, too few to score	89 flights, too few to score	75 flights, too few to score	43 flights, too few to score	90 flights, too few to score
8 PM–9 PM	114 flights, too few to score	68 flights, too few to score	83 flights, too few to score	71.9% on time135 flights	115 flights, too few to score	70 flights, too few to score	64.5% on time143 flights

By departure window

5–9 AM85.0%

9 AM–12 PM82.1%

12–3 PM75.6%

3–6 PM64.4%

6–9 PM65.6%

9 PM–5 AM—

By departure hour

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.

Why AUS → DFW runs late

July 2023 – July 2026

Late-arriving aircraft45.3%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

The airline29.2%

crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control

Air traffic control15.7%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

Weather9.7%

weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically

Security0.1%

screening or terminal security incidents

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AUS → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on AUS → DFW, at 45.3%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 85.0% of the time and 3–6 PM departures 64.4%.

How this route holds up in bad weather

July 2023 – July 2026

The harder-hit end is DFW, where the flight lands. Its figure counts departures from DFW, so it says more about how that airport copes than about this route. Bad weather cancels 7.0 times the normal rate at DFW against 1.7 times at AUS. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: AUS 1.6% against 0.9%, DFW 10.4% against 1.5%. Flights that did leave DFW in bad weather arrived on time 56.4% of the time, against 74.4% in normal hours.

Bad weather and normal hours at the airports

Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026

Departures from AUS and DFW in hours of bad weather and in normal hours
Departures from	AUS	DFW
Cancelled in bad weather	1.6%	10.4%
Cancelled in normal hours	0.9%	1.5%
Arrived on time, bad weather	74.9%	56.4%
Arrived on time, normal hours	77.5%	74.4%
Departures in bad weather	22,580	72,822

Envoy Air (2.8% cancelled against 1.5% for the other carriers at AUS) and American Airlines (2.7% cancelled against 1.3% for the other carriers at AUS) cancelled more departures from AUS in bad weather than the other carriers there did in the same months. None of the route’s other carriers was clearly better.

This route’s airlines in bad weather at AUS

All departures from AUS

Cancellation rates in bad weather at AUS for the airlines that fly AUS to DFW, against the other carriers at AUS in the same months
Airline	Bad-weather departures	Cancelled	Other carriers
SkyWest Airlines	1,375	2.3%about level	1.8%
Envoy Air	573	2.8%above the others	1.5%
American Airlines	3,760	2.7%above the others	1.3%

These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from AUS and DFW, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad. The airline rows count each carrier’s departures from AUS on every route.

Weather source and limits. In full: AUS (airlines), DFW, What Weather Costs Each Airport, Who Cancels More When the Weather Turns, Airports That Change Places When Weather Turns.

Airlines on this route

Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.

Airlines on this route
Carrier	Flights	On time	Cancelled	Median delay	Severe
American Airlines	11,743	75.7%	2.64%	-5 min	10.7%
Envoy Air	2,424	77.4%	2.81%	-5 min	8.6%
SkyWest Airlines	632	63.5%	3.32%	-1 min	23.5%

American Airlines flew 79.3% of the 14,799 flights listed.

Envoy Air arrived on time 13.9 percentage points more often than SkyWest Airlines on this route.

Flights on this route

Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.

Flights on this route
Flight	Scheduled	Operations	On time
AA2563 American Airlines	5:00 AM	1,015	91.3%
AA579 American Airlines	6:00 AM	626	87.5%

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon73.8%

Tue79.8%

Wed78.9%

Thu73.4%

Fri74.5%

Sat76.4%

Sun71.1%

Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 8.7 percentage points.

By month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

June is historically the weakest month and September the strongest, a spread of 12.4 percentage points.

Reliability over time

July 2023 – July 2026

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25

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Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 74.0% against 77.1% in the 12 months before — declining by 3.1 percentage points.

Data and methodology

Calculated by FlyerIntel from 14,934 AUS → DFW flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.

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Analysis last recomputed September 26, 2026

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Right now

Route reliability

What stands out

Why AUS → DFW flights are cancelled

Share of cancellations

What each reason means

When it goes wrong

Will your connection be tight enough?

Best time to fly

By day and hour

By departure window

By departure hour

Why AUS → DFW runs late

How this route holds up in bad weather

Bad weather and normal hours at the airports

This route’s airlines in bad weather at AUS

Airlines on this route

Flights on this route

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

By month

Reliability over time

Data and methodology