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Route reliability record

BPT→DFW

Beaumont to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights
722
Period
September 2025 to August 2026
Distance
270 mi
Carriers
2
BGRADE

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 close to two hours on average. That rests on 722 BPT to DFW flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.

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 56 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

Key figures

On time

82.9%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 700 completed flights

Avg delay

106 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.91%

National rate is 1.89%

Best carrier

SkyWest

82.2% on time across 654 flights

These figures cover 722 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

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Carrier by carrier

Which airline is most reliable on BPT 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.

On-time performance by carrier on BPT to DFW
AirlineFlightsOn timeAvg delayCancelledGrade
Envoy Airthin sample6889.1%49 min5.88%A−
SkyWest Airlines65482.2%110 min2.60%B

Flight by flight

Flights on BPT 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 is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 722 flights.

  • 5am–8am362 flights85.4%
  • 8am–11am—
  • 11am–2pm—
  • 2pm–5pm358 flights80.2%
  • 5pm–8pm—
  • 8pm–5am2 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The early departures do better, though not dramatically: 85.4% on time for the 5am–8am window against 80.2% for 2pm–5pm. Worth taking if the schedule allows, not worth an extra connection. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 362 flights scheduled in it.

Explore

Filter BPT 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 BPT to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 85.4% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 80.2%, a real gap of 5.2 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.

  • 5–8am85.4%
  • 8–11am—
  • 11am–2pm—
  • 2–5pm80.2%
  • 5–8pm—
  • 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

This route's year swings by 22 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.

On-time rate by calendar month93J81F79M83A85M81J75J95A88S80O81N73D
Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.August best, December worst

December is the weak month at 72.9% on time, against 95.2% in August. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. July was the busiest month here, with 64 flights.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 87.9% on time and Monday the weakest at 72.5%, a spread of 15 points.

On-time rate by day of the week72.5Mon87.9Tue83.0Wed83.3Thu85.9Fri86.6Sat81.2Sun
Monday: 72.5 percent on time. Tuesday: 87.9 percent on time. Wednesday: 83.0 percent on time. Thursday: 83.3 percent on time. Friday: 85.9 percent on time. Saturday: 86.6 percent on time. Sunday: 81.2 percent on time

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 13,000 reported delay minutes.

  • Carrier
    39%
  • Extreme weather
    34%
  • Late-arriving aircraft
    14%
  • National Airspace System
    13%
  • Security
    0%

Extreme weather accounts for 34% 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 5.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 12,764 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 39%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,949 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 2.91%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here actually costs

8.6% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 270 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 79.6% on time across 722 flights, 3 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 3 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 722 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

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What to do with this

Booking this route

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.91% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 700 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Common questions

BPT to DFW questions

How often is BPT 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 17.1% of the 722 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.

How reliable is BPT to DFW compared with the rest of the country?

82.9% 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 BPT to DFW?

The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 85.4% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 80.2%, 5 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 December delays on BPT to DFW?

December is the weakest month at 72.9% on time, compared with 95.2% in August. Across the year that is 22 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

Direction matters. BPT to DFW and DFW to BPT 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.