Route reliability record
CLL→DFW
College Station to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,187
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 164 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 1,187 CLL to DFW flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Best time to fly CLL to DFW: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Thursday. Flights in that window arrived on time 90.2% of the time and Thursday flights 90.9%, against 86.0% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 87 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,154 completed flights
Avg delay
92 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.70%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
86.7% on time across 1,146 flights
These figures cover 1,187 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 CLL 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 | 1,146 | 86.7% | 92 min | 2.71% | A |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 41 | 67.5% | 96 min | 2.44% | C |
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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 1,187 flights.
- 5am–8am364 flights87.4%
- 8am–11am358 flights90.2%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm104 flights81.4%
- 5pm–8pm360 flights81.8%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 90.2% of the time, against 81.4% for the afternoon window. That is 9 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 364 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter CLL 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 CLL to DFW, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 90.2% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 81.4%, a real gap of 8.8 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am87.4%
- 8–11am90.2%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2–5pm81.4%
- 5–8pm81.8%
- 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 15 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.
June is the worst month at 78.0% on time, 15 points below January, the best at 92.9%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. October was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 90.9% on time and Saturday the weakest at 80.0%, a spread of 11 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 15,000 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 18%Extreme weather
- 17%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 18% 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 3.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 14,834 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 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 2 to one.
Cancellations run at 2.70%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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
7.3% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 164 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 86.4% on time across 1,187 flights, within half 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 1,187 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: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. January runs 92.9% on time and June 78.0%, a swing of 15 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,154 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
CLL to DFW questions
How often is CLL to DFW delayed?
About one flight in seven arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 14.0% of the 1,187 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
How reliable is CLL to DFW compared with the rest of the country?
86.0% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 9 points in its favour. That is worth a A on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on CLL to DFW?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 90.2% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 81.4%, 9 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 June delays on CLL to DFW?
June is the weakest month at 78.0% on time, compared with 92.9% in January. Across the year that is 15 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 CLL — 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 record86.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record67.5%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. CLL to DFW and DFW to CLL 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.