Airport month record
DALJUN
Dallas Love Field in June 2026
- Departures
- 6,025
- Month
- June 2026
- National, same month
- 74.3%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for June 2026, not live status or a forecast for this year’s June. For today’s conditions at DAL, see live FAA status.
DAL in June earns a D, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 56.5% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 18 points worse than the national rate of 74.3%. Late arrivals average about an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 6,025 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 74.3%, so dal in june runs 18 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 178 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
56.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 5,929 completed departures
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.18%
Nationally in June: 1.65%
Whole year
73.2%
DAL across all twelve months
These figures cover 6,025 departures from Dallas Love Field in June 2026. On time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the DOT's threshold, and the national comparison uses every US departure in the same month rather than the whole year.
Against the year
June next to DAL's other months
Against DAL's own year, June ran 17 points worse than the twelve-month rate of 73.2%, which makes it the worst of the twelve months in the data.
| Month | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | 6,349 | 68.5% | 62 min | 1.32% | C |
| August 2025 | 5,730 | 75.5% | 61 min | 0.54% | B+ |
| September 2025 | 5,518 | 81.9% | 56 min | 0.13% | B+ |
| October 2025 | 6,100 | 75.9% | 57 min | 0.80% | B+ |
| November 2025 | 5,799 | 76.4% | 62 min | 2.71% | B |
| December 2025 | 6,070 | 78.7% | 50 min | 0.38% | B+ |
| January 2026 | 5,470 | 82.8% | 49 min | 5.54% | B− |
| February 2026 | 5,163 | 79.7% | 44 min | 0.87% | B+ |
| March 2026 | 6,221 | 70.3% | 56 min | 1.29% | C |
| April 2026 | 5,965 | 71.1% | 51 min | 0.70% | C+ |
| May 2026 | 6,141 | 64.3% | 62 min | 1.69% | D |
| June 2026 (this page) | 6,025 | 56.5% | 60 min | 1.18% | D |
Departure window
The best time of day to leave DAL in June
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 53 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am888 flights85.9%
- 8am–11am1,141 flights73.7%
- 11am–2pm1,041 flights58.7%
- 2pm–5pm1,055 flights47.5%
- 5pm–8pm870 flights39.8%
- 8pm–5am1,030 flights33.2%
Scale runs 25% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 33.2% on time, against 85.9% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 1,141 flights scheduled in it.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 65.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 44.4%. 21 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Carrier by carrier
Which airlines ran best at DAL in June
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines | 5,876 | 55.9% | 60 min | 1.21% | D |
| Delta Air Linesthin sample | 149 | 79.7% | 82 min | 0.00% | B+ |
Route by route
Busiest routes out of DAL in June
| Route | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAL to HOU · Houstonthin sample | 328 | 63.4% | 63 min | 2.44% | D |
| DAL to ATL · Atlantathin sample | 265 | 70.3% | 64 min | 0.38% | C+ |
| DAL to DEN · Denverthin sample | 263 | 58.6% | 56 min | 2.28% | D |
| DAL to LAS · Las Vegasthin sample | 238 | 51.3% | 64 min | 1.68% | F |
| DAL to MCO · Orlandothin sample | 236 | 60.0% | 49 min | 2.54% | D |
| DAL to SAT · San Antoniothin sample | 223 | 57.5% | 64 min | 0.90% | D+ |
| DAL to PHX · Phoenixthin sample | 219 | 54.2% | 55 min | 1.37% | F |
| DAL to BNA · Nashvillethin sample | 207 | 50.5% | 60 min | 0.97% | F+ |
| DAL to MDW · Chicagothin sample | 195 | 56.4% | 57 min | 2.56% | D |
| DAL to AUS · Austinthin sample | 194 | 64.1% | 58 min | 1.03% | D |
| DAL to MCI · Kansas Citythin sample | 172 | 64.1% | 68 min | 1.16% | D |
| DAL to STL · St. Louisthin sample | 169 | 54.2% | 61 min | 0.59% | F+ |
| DAL to MSY · New Orleansthin sample | 162 | 61.5% | 62 min | 0.62% | D+ |
| DAL to BWI · Baltimorethin sample | 157 | 64.7% | 64 min | 1.91% | D |
| DAL to DCA · Washingtonthin sample | 146 | 58.5% | 67 min | 2.05% | D |
| DAL to ELP · El Pasothin sample | 146 | 62.9% | 57 min | 1.37% | D |
| DAL to LAX · Los Angelesthin sample | 141 | 46.4% | 50 min | 0.71% | F+ |
| DAL to LGA · New Yorkthin sample | 138 | 45.4% | 60 min | 0.72% | F+ |
| DAL to SAN · San Diegothin sample | 136 | 49.6% | 54 min | 1.47% | F |
| DAL to ABQ · Albuquerquethin sample | 128 | 58.7% | 59 min | 1.56% | D |
| DAL to LBB · Lubbockthin sample | 112 | 55.5% | 54 min | 1.79% | D |
| DAL to AMA · Amarillothin sample | 110 | 49.5% | 56 min | 0.91% | F+ |
| DAL to MAF · Midlandthin sample | 108 | 58.9% | 61 min | 0.93% | D+ |
| DAL to TPA · Tampathin sample | 106 | 56.6% | 60 min | 0.00% | D+ |
| DAL to ECP · Panama Citythin sample | 92 | 59.3% | 64 min | 1.09% | D |
Delay causes
What held DAL up in June
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 155,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 155,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 154,882 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.18% against a national 1.65%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.41%.
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 15.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 9.7% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
What to do with this
Flying from DAL in June
For a June trip through DAL: plan on this being one of the airport's harder months. The 5am–8am departures held up best at 85.9% on time, and with 15.4% of arrivals an hour or more late, a connection here deserves more slack than the same trip in January would.
Related
Where to go next
- Dallas Love Field (DAL), the whole year
- DAL in July68.5%
- DAL in August75.5%
- DAL in September81.9%
- DAL in October75.9%
- DAL in November76.4%
- DAL in December78.7%
- DAL in January82.8%
- DAL in February79.7%
- DAL in March70.3%
- DAL in April71.1%
- DAL in May64.3%
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.