Route profile
OMA→DFW
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Omaha to Dallas–Fort Worth, 583 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 12% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 4,691 flights. How this is calculated
OMA → DFW arrives on time 75.6% of the time; the return trip, DFW → OMA, arrives on time 68.9% of the time, a 6.7-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
OMA → DFW spends 27.8 minutes on the ground on a 583-mile trip: 14.5 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at OMA and 13.3 minutes from touchdown to gate at DFW.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
What sets this route apart
Where OMA to DFW differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
OMA to DFW struggles most at 4 PM: 59.3% of its flights scheduled then arrive on time, 11.5 points behind the 70.8% on routes of similar length at the same hour. Against all other routes the gap is 11.4 points.
Monday is the day OMA to DFW slips furthest against routes of similar length, 71.9% on time where they average 77.7%, 5.8 points lower. Against all other routes the gap is 5.4 points.
In June, OMA to DFW runs 7.4 points below routes of similar length, 66.0% on time to 73.4%. Against all other routes the gap is 6.7 points.
OMA to DFW against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 4 PM departures | 59.3% | routes of similar length | 70.8% | −11.5 pts | 398 here, 109,816 there |
| Weekday: Monday | 71.9% | routes of similar length | 77.7% | −5.8 pts | 693 here, 285,159 there |
| Month: June | 66.0% | routes of similar length | 73.4% | −7.4 pts | 429 here, 156,435 there |
Each comparison pools the flights of other routes, with this route’s own left out. Similar length means within 15% of this route’s 583 miles, with at least 5 such routes. A bucket is set against the most comparable group that has enough flights: similar length, then the same origin (at least 3 routes), then all other routes. Hours, weekdays and months appear only where both sides have 120 completed flights, and airlines where both have 600. The gap must be at least 2 points and 2 standard errors, and only the largest gap each way is kept per measure. These are differences in the flights counted, not causes.
Why OMA → DFW flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
OMA → DFW cancelled 109 of 4,691 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 43. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 90.8% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 47 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 109 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.
What each reason means
Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.
99 cancellations, 90.8% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
9 cancellations, 8.3% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
1 cancellation, 0.9% of the total.
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. With only one or two carriers on the route, the split mostly reflects how they file. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.
109 coded cancellations were recorded on OMA → DFW; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
63 min late
against a median of 6 min early
OMA → DFW has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 6 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 4,691 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at DFW after arriving from OMA.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 38% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 24% | High risk |
| 60 min | 17% | High risk |
| 90 min | 10% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 7.2% | 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 2.32% of the time and diverts 0.49% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 4,559 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 63 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 4,691 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
OMA → DFW flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 86.0% of the time, against 68.2% for 3–6 PM departures, a gap of 17.8 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 4 AM: too few flights to score
- 5 AM: 86.0% on time from 1,117 flights
- 6 AM to 8 AM: too few flights to score
- 9 AM: 80.0% on time from 988 flights
- 10 AM: too few flights to score
- 11 AM: 73.8% on time from 257 flights
- 12 PM: 70.1% on time from 235 flights
- 1 PM to 2 PM: too few flights to score
- 3 PM: 75.3% on time from 487 flights
- 4 PM: 59.3% on time from 411 flights
- 5 PM: 69.7% on time from 172 flights
- 6 PM: too few flights to score
- 7 PM: 68.3% on time from 794 flights
- 8 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.
Why OMA → DFW 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 OMA → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on OMA → DFW, at 54.0%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 86.0% of the time and 3–6 PM departures 68.2%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 4,162 | 75.0% | 2.35% | -6 min | 10.8% |
| Envoy Air | 408 | 85.7% | 1.72% | -12 min | 6.8% |
American Airlines flew 91.1% of the 4,570 flights listed.
Envoy Air arrived on time 10.7 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.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA2540 American Airlines | 5:00 AM | 1,117 | 86.0% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Monday the least, a gap of 6.1 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 72.8%
- Feb: 84.0%
- Mar: 77.2%
- Apr: 79.4%
- May: 70.0%
- Jun: 66.0%
- Jul: 65.4%
- Aug: 73.2%
- Sep: 86.1%
- Oct: 81.8%
- Nov: 81.7%
- Dec: 80.7%
July is historically the weakest month and September the strongest, a spread of 20.7 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 73.6% from 122 flights
- August 2023: 82.8% from 124 flights
- September 2023: too few flights to score (111)
- October 2023: too few flights to score (115)
- November 2023: too few flights to score (111)
- December 2023: too few flights to score (106)
- January 2024: 56.8% from 120 flights
- February 2024: too few flights to score (114)
- March 2024: 70.2% from 122 flights
- April 2024: too few flights to score (119)
- May 2024: 62.3% from 156 flights
- June 2024: 71.2% from 162 flights
- July 2024: 57.9% from 160 flights
- August 2024: 70.2% from 132 flights
- September 2024: too few flights to score (98)
- October 2024: 84.1% from 132 flights
- November 2024: too few flights to score (104)
- December 2024: too few flights to score (101)
- January 2025: too few flights to score (109)
- February 2025: too few flights to score (99)
- March 2025: 76.1% from 121 flights
- April 2025: 77.7% from 120 flights
- May 2025: 70.2% from 164 flights
- June 2025: 59.6% from 152 flights
- July 2025: 65.8% from 153 flights
- August 2025: 67.4% from 137 flights
- September 2025: 82.9% from 120 flights
- October 2025: 80.8% from 148 flights
- November 2025: 78.0% from 136 flights
- December 2025: 80.0% from 131 flights
- January 2026: 79.2% from 120 flights
- February 2026: too few flights to score (110)
- March 2026: 85.5% from 124 flights
- April 2026: 78.6% from 120 flights
- May 2026: 78.1% from 143 flights
- June 2026: 66.9% from 137 flights
- July 2026: 66.4% from 138 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 77.3% against 74.7% in the 12 months before — improving by 2.6 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 4,691 OMA → 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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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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