Route reliability record
DFW→ABI
Dallas-Fort Worth to Abilene
- Flights
- 1,750
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 158 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route lands a B, 5 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 about an hour on average. That rests on 1,750 DFW to ABI flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Best time to fly DFW to ABI: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 89.7% of the time and Tuesday flights 90.1%, against 82.6% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 53 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,713 completed flights
Avg delay
59 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.06%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
82.6% on time across 1,750 flights
These figures cover 1,750 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 DFW to ABI
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 | 82.6% | 59 min | 2.06% | B |
Flight by flight
Flights on DFW to ABI
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 15 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am363 flights88.8%
- 11am–2pm354 flights89.7%
- 2pm–5pm231 flights74.8%
- 5pm–8pm388 flights77.7%
- 8pm–5am414 flights80.0%
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 89.7% on time, ahead of 2pm–5pm at 74.8%. 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 414 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter DFW to ABI 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 DFW to ABI, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 89.7% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 74.8%, a wide gap of 14.9 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am88.8%
- 11am–2pm89.7%
- 2–5pm74.8%
- 5–8pm77.7%
- 8pm–5am80.0%
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 12 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.
Delays peak in September, when the on-time rate falls to 75.5%. March is the strongest month at 87.9%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 12 points. May was the busiest month here, with 151 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 90.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 75.6%, a spread of 15 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 18,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 17%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 17,606 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 2.06% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.06%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
5.8% 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 about 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 83.5% 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in ABI after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. March runs 87.9% on time and September 75.5%, a swing of 12 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of September before you think about anything else. 1,713 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to ABI questions
How often is DFW to ABI 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 17.4% of the 1,750 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is DFW to ABI compared with the rest of the country?
82.6% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 5 points in its favour. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to ABI?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 89.7% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 74.8%, 15 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 DFW to ABI?
September is the weakest month at 75.5% on time, compared with 87.9% in March. Across the year that is 12 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
- ABI to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- DFW to LGA, a related route66.1%
- Envoy Air on-time record82.6%
- 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. DFW to ABI and ABI to DFW 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.