DFW → AUS Flight Reliability

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Updated 09:53 UTC

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Route reliability

July 2023 – July 2026

Route Reliability Score

42/ 100Weak

Better than 6% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)

Calculated from 14,944 flights. How this is calculated

On-time arrivals

70.6%

10,273 of 14,546

Cancellation rate

2.54%

379 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-2 min

Average 16.2 min

Severe delays

11.3%

60+ minutes late

Delay when late

73 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Flights analyzed

14,944

3 carriers

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

DFW → AUS spends 27.0 minutes on the ground on a 190-mile trip: 18.3 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at DFW and 8.7 minutes from touchdown to gate at AUS.

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

Why DFW → AUS flights are cancelled

July 2023 – July 2026

DFW → AUS cancelled 379 of 14,944 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 39. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 88.7% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 44 scheduled flights.

Share of cancellations

Weather88.7%

Air traffic5.8%

Airline5.5%

Security0.0%

Of 379 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

Extreme weather1 in 44

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

336 cancellations, 88.7% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 679

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

22 cancellations, 5.8% of the total.

The airline1 in 712

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

21 cancellations, 5.5% 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.

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

When it goes wrong

July 2023 – July 2026

One arrival in ten is worse than

67 min late

against a median of 2 min early

Arrived an hour or more late11.3%

Typical delay when late73 min

Cancelled2.54%

Landed somewhere else0.13%

DFW → AUS has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 2 min early, but the worst tenth are 69 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 14,944 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.

Will your connection be tight enough?

Layovers at AUS after arriving from DFW.

Connection buffer and chance of missing by layover length, DFW → AUS arrivals
Connection time	Chance of missing	Reads as
30 min	45%	Likely to miss
45 min	29%	High risk
60 min	20%	High risk
90 min	11%	Some risk
120 min	7.0%	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 2.54% of the time and diverts 0.13% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.

Chance of missing is the share of 14,546 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 67 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 14,944 operations.

Any other layover length: connection checker.

Best time to fly

DFW → AUS flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 83.6% of the time, against 61.0% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 22.6 percentage points.

By day and hour

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

Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 8.2 points from the route-wide rate, weekday averages 3.6 points.

On-time arrival rate for DFW to AUS by weekday and scheduled departure hour, local time. Each button reads out one slot.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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
9 PM–10 PM
10 PM–11 PM

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

40–49
50–59
60–69
70–79
80–89

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 before 7 AM (18 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 DFW to AUS. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
7 AM–8 AM	77.7% on time181 flights	81.9% on time155 flights	85.6% on time153 flights	84.5% on time184 flights	88.3% on time183 flights	86.3% on time161 flights	84.8% on time168 flights
8 AM–9 AM	83.1% on time177 flights	82.5% on time169 flights	88.0% on time169 flights	82.6% on time158 flights	81.4% on time177 flights	81.4% on time149 flights	81.2% on time174 flights
9 AM–10 AM	108 flights, too few to score	111 flights, too few to score	109 flights, too few to score	101 flights, too few to score	105 flights, too few to score	83 flights, too few to score	108 flights, too few to score
10 AM–11 AM	82.7% on time152 flights	84.9% on time150 flights	77.9% on time146 flights	78.0% on time152 flights	76.0% on time151 flights	114 flights, too few to score	77.0% on time151 flights
11 AM–12 PM	84 flights, too few to score	87 flights, too few to score	74 flights, too few to score	81 flights, too few to score	86 flights, too few to score	53 flights, too few to score	85 flights, too few to score
12 PM–1 PM	106 flights, too few to score	112 flights, too few to score	106 flights, too few to score	118 flights, too few to score	108 flights, too few to score	99 flights, too few to score	107 flights, too few to score
1 PM–2 PM	69.4% on time123 flights	117 flights, too few to score	113 flights, too few to score	118 flights, too few to score	65.3% on time123 flights	94 flights, too few to score	63.9% on time123 flights
2 PM–3 PM	74.4% on time125 flights	117 flights, too few to score	71.2% on time123 flights	75.0% on time120 flights	63.9% on time121 flights	99 flights, too few to score	69.2% on time122 flights
3 PM–4 PM	94 flights, too few to score	99 flights, too few to score	100 flights, too few to score	95 flights, too few to score	96 flights, too few to score	107 flights, too few to score	97 flights, too few to score
4 PM–5 PM	68.8% on time147 flights	74.7% on time151 flights	70.9% on time146 flights	64.3% on time144 flights	60.7% on time143 flights	77.2% on time129 flights	58.6% on time150 flights
5 PM–6 PM	55.8% on time149 flights	61.1% on time151 flights	73.9% on time141 flights	66.2% on time149 flights	58.5% on time150 flights	66.4% on time128 flights	61.2% on time150 flights
6 PM–7 PM	60.5% on time126 flights	76.5% on time121 flights	119 flights, too few to score	62.9% on time136 flights	61.2% on time131 flights	101 flights, too few to score	49.3% on time145 flights
7 PM–8 PM	60.0% on time169 flights	73.5% on time158 flights	61.8% on time161 flights	62.3% on time152 flights	63.9% on time162 flights	63.2% on time161 flights	56.1% on time148 flights
8 PM–9 PM	55.8% on time141 flights	63.8% on time123 flights	64.3% on time132 flights	57.6% on time152 flights	57.4% on time140 flights	56.1% on time127 flights	50.7% on time152 flights
9 PM–10 PM	61.8% on time185 flights	74.3% on time159 flights	73.1% on time163 flights	63.1% on time180 flights	60.6% on time181 flights	63.7% on time174 flights	52.6% on time186 flights
10 PM–11 PM	61.7% on time150 flights	106 flights, too few to score	77.5% on time125 flights	63.9% on time170 flights	63.6% on time153 flights	102 flights, too few to score	57.3% on time176 flights

By departure window

5–9 AM83.6%

9 AM–12 PM78.3%

12–3 PM72.3%

3–6 PM66.7%

6–9 PM61.0%

9 PM–5 AM64.4%

By departure hour

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Why DFW → AUS runs late

July 2023 – July 2026

Late-arriving aircraft49.4%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

The airline30.0%

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

Air traffic control12.9%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

Weather7.5%

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 DFW → AUS. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on DFW → AUS, at 49.4%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 83.6% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 61.0%.

How this route holds up in bad weather

July 2023 – July 2026

The harder-hit end is the one the flight leaves from, where a cancellation keeps it from departing at all. Bad weather cancels 7.0 times the normal rate at DFW against 1.7 times at AUS. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: DFW 10.4% against 1.5%, AUS 1.6% against 0.9%. 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 DFW and AUS in hours of bad weather and in normal hours
Departures from	DFW	AUS
Cancelled in bad weather	10.4%	1.6%
Cancelled in normal hours	1.5%	0.9%
Arrived on time, bad weather	56.4%	74.9%
Arrived on time, normal hours	74.4%	77.5%
Departures in bad weather	72,822	22,580

Envoy Air (11.9% cancelled against 9.9% for the other carriers at DFW) and SkyWest Airlines (15.0% cancelled against 9.9% for the other carriers at DFW) cancelled more departures from DFW 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 DFW

All departures from DFW

Cancellation rates in bad weather at DFW for the airlines that fly DFW to AUS, against the other carriers at DFW in the same months
Airline	Bad-weather departures	Cancelled	Other carriers
American Airlines	38,491	10.0%about level	10.9%
Envoy Air	15,244	11.9%above the others	9.9%
SkyWest Airlines	5,926	15.0%above the others	9.9%

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

Weather source and limits. In full: DFW (airlines), AUS, 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	11,750	68.2%	2.51%	-1 min	12.7%
Envoy Air	2,427	79.8%	2.60%	-5 min	5.5%
SkyWest Airlines	634	80.2%	1.89%	-10 min	7.7%

American Airlines flew 79.3% of the 14,811 flights listed.

SkyWest Airlines arrived on time 12.0 percentage points more often than American 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
AA2707 American Airlines	9:00 PM	923	59.2%

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon69.0%

Tue76.7%

Wed74.2%

Thu70.1%

Fri68.4%

Sat71.9%

Sun64.9%

Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 11.8 percentage points.

By month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

June is historically the weakest month and February the strongest, a spread of 18.9 percentage points.

Reliability over time

July 2023 – July 2026

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Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 67.9% against 73.0% in the 12 months before — declining by 5.1 percentage points.

Data and methodology

Calculated by FlyerIntel from 14,944 DFW → AUS 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

Why DFW → AUS 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 DFW → AUS 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 DFW

Airlines on this route

Flights on this route

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

By month

Reliability over time

Data and methodology