Airport month record

DFWNOV

Dallas/Fort Worth International in November 2025

Departures: 25,032
Month: November 2025
National, same month: 79.4%
Carriers: 10

Historical statistics for November 2025, not live status or a forecast for this year’s November. For today’s conditions at DFW, see live FAA status.

DFW in November carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 3.5% of scheduled flights never operate, against 2.5% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, close to three flights in four arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 25,032 flights, of which Envoy Air flew 4,700 at 86.5% on time.

Envoy Air is the most reliable of the eight carriers covered here at 86.5% on time across 4,700 flights.

On time

74.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 24,113 completed departures

Avg delay

76 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.47%

Nationally in November: 2.49%

Whole year

72.0%

DFW across all twelve months

These figures cover 25,032 departures from Dallas/Fort Worth International in November 2025. 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

November next to DFW's other months

Against DFW's own year, November ran 2 points better than the twelve-month rate of 72.0%, which makes it number five of twelve months, best first. Either side of it, October ran 75.0% on time and December 71.7%, so this month sits in line with its neighbours.

DFW month by month
Month	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
July 2025	28,959	64.3%	76 min	3.10%	D−
August 2025	27,091	65.7%	80 min	2.66%	C
September 2025	25,641	77.4%	74 min	1.87%	B
October 2025	27,182	75.0%	64 min	1.20%	B
November 2025 (this page)	25,032	74.3%	76 min	3.47%	C−
December 2025	25,770	71.7%	67 min	0.62%	C+
January 2026	24,229	75.4%	79 min	9.85%	B−
February 2026	22,019	78.9%	63 min	1.31%	B
March 2026	26,008	73.4%	76 min	2.51%	C
April 2026	25,686	73.9%	66 min	1.33%	C
May 2026	27,419	72.7%	74 min	3.34%	C−
June 2026	27,815	63.6%	82 min	4.55%	D−

Departure window

The best time of day to leave DFW in November

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 19 points, against 18 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am2,409 flights84.4%
8am–11am5,534 flights81.6%
11am–2pm4,245 flights77.8%
2pm–5pm4,534 flights72.5%
5pm–8pm4,861 flights65.0%
8pm–5am3,449 flights66.3%

Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 84.4% of the time, against 65.0% for the evening window. That is 19 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 5,534 flights scheduled in it.

Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 85.8% on time and Monday the weakest at 63.7%. 22 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Carrier by carrier

Which airlines ran best at DFW in November

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 86.5% of the time; American Airlines manages 68.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 13,445 flights means less than a ten-point one.

Carriers at DFW in November 2025
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlines	13,445	68.7%	76 min	3.00%	C
Envoy Air	4,700	86.5%	49 min	4.51%	A−
PSA Airlines	2,051	76.7%	89 min	4.78%	B−
SkyWest Airlines	1,528	79.1%	80 min	5.43%	B−
Delta Air Lines	995	80.0%	90 min	1.81%	B
Frontier Airlines	872	72.8%	95 min	2.06%	C
United Airlines	822	73.8%	93 min	3.41%	C−
Spirit Airlines	403	77.4%	86 min	1.24%	B
Alaska Airlinesthin sample	186	79.3%	47 min	1.08%	B
JetBlue Airwaysthin sample	30	79.3%	117 min	3.33%	B−

SkyWest Airlines cancels 5.4% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

Route by route

Busiest routes out of DFW in November

Routes from DFW in November 2025
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DFW to ORD · Chicago	591	66.8%	80 min	5.75%	C−
DFW to LGA · New York	582	59.4%	88 min	2.92%	D
DFW to ATL · Atlanta	553	75.5%	76 min	2.71%	B
DFW to LAX · Los Angeles	532	76.7%	80 min	3.20%	B−
DFW to IAH · Houston	474	67.4%	79 min	4.85%	C−
DFW to DEN · Denver	468	77.4%	96 min	2.78%	B
DFW to MIA · Miami	421	70.4%	76 min	1.43%	C
DFW to LAS · Las Vegas	420	70.8%	75 min	2.86%	C
DFW to SEA · Seattle	412	73.8%	60 min	1.94%	C
DFW to AUS · Austin	398	64.4%	83 min	3.27%	D−
DFW to PHX · Phoenix	397	67.8%	77 min	2.27%	C
DFW to MCO · Orlando	374	67.1%	76 min	2.41%	C
DFW to SAT · San Antoniothin sample	344	66.6%	69 min	3.20%	C−
DFW to SFO · San Franciscothin sample	326	71.3%	79 min	1.53%	C
DFW to EWR · Newarkthin sample	310	68.6%	86 min	2.90%	C
DFW to CLT · Charlottethin sample	310	77.7%	65 min	1.61%	B
DFW to SLC · Salt Lake Citythin sample	305	77.7%	60 min	1.64%	B
DFW to DTW · Detroitthin sample	300	75.9%	71 min	2.00%	B
DFW to BOS · Bostonthin sample	292	74.1%	73 min	2.05%	C
DFW to XNA · Bentonvillethin sample	287	82.1%	55 min	2.79%	B
DFW to PHL · Philadelphiathin sample	285	74.1%	74 min	2.46%	C
DFW to MSP · Minneapolisthin sample	269	77.6%	70 min	2.23%	B
DFW to SGF · Springfieldthin sample	266	84.6%	54 min	4.51%	B−
DFW to DCA · Washingtonthin sample	264	67.2%	74 min	0.76%	C+
DFW to SAN · San Diegothin sample	261	66.1%	79 min	4.21%	C−

Delay causes

What held DFW up in November

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 473,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
44%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
8%
Security
0%

44% 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 473,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 473,307 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 3.47%, against 2.49% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 7.8% 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 DFW in November

For a November trip through DFW: expect 74.3% on time and 3.47% cancelled, going by November 2025. The 5am–8am window was the strongest part of the day.

Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW), the whole year
DFW in July64.3%
DFW in August65.7%
DFW in September77.4%
DFW in October75.0%
DFW in December71.7%
DFW in January75.4%
DFW in February78.9%
DFW in March73.4%
DFW in April73.9%
DFW in May72.7%
DFW in June63.6%

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.

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