Route profile
DAL→OMA
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Dallas to Omaha, 586 miles.
Right now
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Aviation weather is not currently a factor.
Route reliability
July 2023 – July 2026
Better than 66% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 1,322 flights. How this is calculated · What counts as on time
DAL → OMA arrives on time 77.5% of the time; the return trip, OMA → DAL, arrives on time 77.4% of the time.
DAL → OMA spends 17.1 minutes on the ground on a 586-mile trip: 12.6 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at DAL and 4.5 minutes from touchdown to gate at OMA.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What stands out
Reliability on this route has fallen unusually sharply over the past year, a bigger swing than 93% of 5,368 comparable routes.
70.5% on time over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), against 81.3% in the 12 months before (2024-08 to 2025-07), a change of 10.8 points.
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 5,368 in the comparison.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
35 min late
against a median of 2 min early
Percentiles over 1,322 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at OMA after arriving from DAL.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 45% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 22% | High risk |
| 60 min | 12% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 4.7% | Low risk |
| 120 min | 2.4% | Low 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 0.98% of the time and diverts 0.00% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 1,309 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 35 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 1,322 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
DAL → OMA flights departing 9 AM–12 PM arrived on time 82.9% of the time, against 56.8% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 26.1 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 8 AM: too few flights to score
- 9 AM: 84.7% on time from 146 flights
- 10 AM: 86.5% on time from 143 flights
- 11 AM: too few flights to score
- 12 PM: 84.9% on time from 139 flights
- 1 PM: 81.2% on time from 168 flights
- 2 PM: 77.2% on time from 145 flights
- 3 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.
Why DAL → OMA runs late
July 2023 – July 2026
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for DAL → OMA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on DAL → OMA, at 48.9%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 9 AM–12 PM departures arrived on time 82.9% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 56.8%.
Airlines on this route
Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.
| Carrier | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 1,322 | 77.5% | 0.98% | -2 min | 4.8% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 13.4 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 70.5% against 81.3% in the 12 months before — declining by 10.8 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 1,322 DAL → OMA 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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Related research: How Long a Layover Needs to Be · Two Airlines on One Route · Best Time of Day to Fly From Major US Airports
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