Route reliability record
DFW→ABQ
Dallas-Fort Worth to Albuquerque
- Flights
- 2,266
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 569 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 2,266 DFW to ABQ flights, of which Envoy Air flew 498 at 82.0% on time.
Best time to fly DFW to ABQ: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 81.7% of the time and Tuesday flights 75.2%, against 69.0% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 83 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,206 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.52%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
82.0% on time across 498 flights
These figures cover 2,266 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% 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 DFW to ABQ
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 82.0% of the time; American Airlines manages 65.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,717 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 498 | 82.0% | 51 min | 1.41% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 51 | 78.0% | 47 min | 1.96% | B |
| American Airlines | 1,717 | 65.0% | 70 min | 2.85% | C |
The spread between Envoy and American is 17 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 17 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
Flight by flight
Flights on DFW to ABQ
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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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Dallas-Fort Worth to Albuquerque
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 2 of the top 4 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → ABQDallas-Fort Worth to Albuquerque | Envoy Air | 80.8% | 82.0% | 1.41% | 8am–11am, Fri | — |
| 2. DAL → ABQDallas to Albuquerque | Southwest Airlines | 75.7% | 76.7% | 1.36% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 3. DFW → SAFDallas-Fort Worth to Santa Fe | SkyWest Airlines | 75.1% | 76.9% | 2.32% | 8am–11am, Wed | OO 6405 20:04 |
| 4. DFW → ABQDallas-Fort Worth to Albuquerque | American Airlines | 63.1% | 65.0% | 2.85% | 8am–11am, Tue | AA 9 14:59 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
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 23 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am593 flights81.7%
- 11am–2pm282 flights78.6%
- 2pm–5pm502 flights65.6%
- 5pm–8pm382 flights60.5%
- 8pm–5am507 flights58.5%
Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 58.5% on time, against 81.7% for the 8am–11am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 593 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter DFW to ABQ 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 ABQ, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 81.7% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 58.5%, a wide gap of 23.2 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am81.7%
- 11am–2pm78.6%
- 2–5pm65.6%
- 5–8pm60.5%
- 8pm–5am58.5%
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 16 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 62.0% on time, 16 points below February, the best at 78.1%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 230 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 75.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 63.3%, a spread of 12 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 46,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 46,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 46,112 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 81.7% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.52%, 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
10.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 569 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 81.0% on time across 2,269 flights, 12 points above 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 12 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,266 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 ABQ 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. February runs 78.1% on time and June 62.0%, a swing of 16 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 2,206 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to ABQ questions
How often is DFW to ABQ delayed?
About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 31.0% of the 2,266 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to ABQ?
Envoy Air leads at 82.0% on time across 498 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 65.0%, a gap of 17 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to ABQ?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 81.7% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 58.5%, 23 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 DFW to ABQ?
June is the weakest month at 62.0% on time, compared with 78.1% in February. Across the year that is 16 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
- ABQ to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on DFW to ABQ82.0%
- American Airlines on DFW to ABQ65.0%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- PHX to ABQ, a related route77.9%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- Envoy Air on-time record82.0%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record78.0%
- American Airlines on-time record65.0%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to ABQ and ABQ 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.