Route reliability record
ABI→DFW
Abilene to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,750
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 158 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 1,750 ABI to DFW flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Best time to fly ABI to DFW: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Thursday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.4% of the time and Thursday flights 86.6%, against 83.5% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 62 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,710 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.11%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
83.5% on time across 1,750 flights
These figures cover 1,750 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on ABI to DFW
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,750 | 83.5% | 74 min | 2.11% | B |
Flight by flight
Flights on ABI to DFW
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am565 flights85.0%
- 8am–11am438 flights85.9%
- 11am–2pm142 flights91.4%
- 2pm–5pm248 flights86.5%
- 5pm–8pm357 flights72.7%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 91.4% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 72.7%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 565 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter ABI to DFW by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On ABI to DFW, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 91.4% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 72.7%, a wide gap of 18.7 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am85.0%
- 8–11am85.9%
- 11am–2pm91.4%
- 2–5pm86.5%
- 5–8pm72.7%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
Twelve months, one bar each, drawn from the same 1,750 flights. The strip shows how much of this route's record is set by the calendar rather than by the operation.
Delays peak in September, when the on-time rate falls to 79.0%. February is the strongest month at 88.6%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 10 points. May was the busiest month here, with 151 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 86.6% on time and Sunday the weakest at 78.0%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 21,000 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 25%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 25% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 4.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 20,864 reported delay minutes.
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 21,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 1 to one.
Cancellations sit at 2.11% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.17%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
6.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 158 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 82.6% on time across 1,750 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,750 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: avoid the 5pm–8pm departure. It runs 72.7% on time against 91.4% for the 11am–2pm slot, and that 19 points is the largest single thing you control here. Envoy Air is the strongest operator if the fares are close. 1,710 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
ABI to DFW questions
How often is ABI to DFW delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 16.5% of the 1,750 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
How reliable is ABI to DFW compared with the rest of the country?
83.5% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 6 points in its favour. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on ABI to DFW?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 91.4% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 72.7%, 19 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.
How bad are September delays on ABI to DFW?
September is the weakest month at 79.0% on time, compared with 88.6% in February. Across the year that is 10 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to ABI — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- ATL to DFW, a related route73.9%
- LGA to DFW, a related route70.1%
- Envoy Air on-time record83.5%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. ABI to DFW and DFW to ABI are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.