Route profile
PIT→DFW
Flight reliability, delays and best times to fly from Pittsburgh to Dallas–Fort Worth, 1,067 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 33% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)
Calculated from 4,719 flights. How this is calculated
PIT → DFW arrives on time 78.3% of the time; the return trip, DFW → PIT, arrives on time 73.4% of the time, a 4.8-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.
PIT → DFW spends 30.1 minutes on the ground on a 1,067-mile trip: 14.9 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at PIT and 15.2 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 PIT to DFW differs most from similar routes by hour, weekday, month and airline, July 2023 – July 2026.
PIT to DFW is at its best against routes of similar length for flights scheduled at 5 PM: 80.0% arrive on time, 12.5 points ahead of the 67.5% those routes manage at that hour. Against all other routes the gap is 10.2 points.
PIT to DFW holds up on Fridays better than routes of similar length do: 79.8% on time to their 75.5%, a 4.3 points lead. Against all other routes the gap is 3.6 points.
July is kinder to PIT to DFW than to routes of similar length: 76.3% on time against 68.1%, 8.2 points better. Against all other routes the gap is 6.6 points.
In January, PIT to DFW runs 6.1 points below routes of similar length, 70.9% on time to 77.0%. Against all other routes the gap is 8.2 points.
American Airlines does better on PIT to DFW than on its routes of similar length: 78.5% on time here, 74.0% there, 4.5 points apart. Against all other routes the gap is 3.4 points.
PIT to DFW against comparable routes
July 2023 – July 2026| Measure | This route | Compared with | Them | Gap | Flights behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hour: 5 PM departures | 80.0% | routes of similar length | 67.5% | +12.5 pts | 125 here, 175,433 there |
| Weekday: Friday | 79.8% | routes of similar length | 75.5% | +4.3 pts | 668 here, 427,719 there |
| Month: July | 76.3% | routes of similar length | 68.1% | +8.2 pts | 596 here, 312,836 there |
| Month: January | 70.9% | routes of similar length | 77.0% | −6.1 pts | 327 here, 221,343 there |
| Airline: American Airlines | 78.5% | routes of similar length | 74.0% | +4.5 pts | 4,552 here, 582,292 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 1,067 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 PIT → DFW flights are cancelled
July 2023 – July 2026
PIT → DFW cancelled 71 of 4,719 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 66. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 77.5% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 86 scheduled flights.
Share of cancellations
Of 71 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.
55 cancellations, 77.5% of the total.
Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.
16 cancellations, 22.5% of the total.
Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.
0 cancellations, 0.0% 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.
71 coded cancellations were recorded on PIT → DFW; the section appears from 50.
When it goes wrong
July 2023 – July 2026
52 min late
against a median of 8 min early
Percentiles over 4,719 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Will your connection be tight enough?
Layovers at DFW after arriving from PIT.
| Connection time | Chance of missing | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | 36% | Likely to miss |
| 45 min | 21% | High risk |
| 60 min | 15% | Some risk |
| 90 min | 8.4% | Some risk |
| 120 min | 5.7% | 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 1.50% of the time and diverts 0.55% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.
Chance of missing is the share of 4,622 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 52 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 4,719 operations.
Any other layover length: connection checker.
Best time to fly
PIT → DFW flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 87.7% of the time, against 66.2% for 6–9 PM departures, a gap of 21.5 percentage points.
By departure window
By departure hour
- 12 AM to 4 AM: too few flights to score
- 5 AM: 90.4% on time from 341 flights
- 6 AM: 86.8% on time from 622 flights
- 7 AM: 87.0% on time from 566 flights
- 8 AM to 10 AM: too few flights to score
- 11 AM: 84.7% on time from 964 flights
- 12 PM to 2 PM: too few flights to score
- 3 PM: 69.8% on time from 1,021 flights
- 4 PM: too few flights to score
- 5 PM: 80.0% on time from 127 flights
- 6 PM: too few flights to score
- 7 PM: 65.3% on time from 712 flights
- 8 PM to 11 PM: too few flights to score
Departure windows with fewer than 120 flights are not scored.
Why PIT → 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 PIT → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on PIT → DFW, at 44.8%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 87.7% of the time and 6–9 PM departures 66.2%.
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 | 4,646 | 78.5% | 1.46% | -8 min | 8.5% |
Flights on this route
Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.
| Flight | Scheduled | Operations | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA762 American Airlines | 7:00 AM | 871 | 85.9% |
Weekly and seasonal patterns
By day of week
Friday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 5.5 percentage points.
By month
- Jan: 70.9%
- Feb: 79.0%
- Mar: 81.6%
- Apr: 74.6%
- May: 71.5%
- Jun: 72.2%
- Jul: 76.3%
- Aug: 78.9%
- Sep: 83.7%
- Oct: 87.3%
- Nov: 84.6%
- Dec: 80.6%
January is historically the weakest month and October the strongest, a spread of 16.4 percentage points.
Reliability over time
July 2023 – July 2026
- July 2023: 70.4% from 137 flights
- August 2023: 80.8% from 152 flights
- September 2023: 86.0% from 129 flights
- October 2023: too few flights to score (117)
- November 2023: 87.5% from 128 flights
- December 2023: too few flights to score (118)
- January 2024: 65.5% from 121 flights
- February 2024: too few flights to score (114)
- March 2024: 79.5% from 124 flights
- April 2024: too few flights to score (118)
- May 2024: 62.5% from 154 flights
- June 2024: 71.1% from 162 flights
- July 2024: 74.8% from 161 flights
- August 2024: 77.9% from 127 flights
- September 2024: too few flights to score (117)
- October 2024: 93.5% from 138 flights
- November 2024: too few flights to score (100)
- December 2024: too few flights to score (102)
- January 2025: 67.8% from 122 flights
- February 2025: too few flights to score (112)
- March 2025: 81.2% from 122 flights
- April 2025: too few flights to score (116)
- May 2025: 71.9% from 122 flights
- June 2025: 70.8% from 145 flights
- July 2025: 72.0% from 153 flights
- August 2025: 77.6% from 133 flights
- September 2025: 80.2% from 120 flights
- October 2025: 85.8% from 135 flights
- November 2025: too few flights to score (116)
- December 2025: 73.1% from 130 flights
- January 2026: too few flights to score (100)
- February 2026: too few flights to score (93)
- March 2026: 84.1% from 127 flights
- April 2026: 82.0% from 123 flights
- May 2026: 81.3% from 133 flights
- June 2026: 75.0% from 146 flights
- July 2026: 87.5% from 152 flights
Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 81.0% against 77.4% in the 12 months before — improving by 3.6 percentage points.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 4,719 PIT → 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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