Route reliability record
DFW→AUS
Dallas-Fort Worth to Austin
- Flights
- 4,730
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 190 mi
- Carriers
- 4
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, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 4,730 DFW to AUS flights, of which Envoy Air flew 681 at 80.9% on time.
Best time to fly DFW to AUS: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 84.4% of the time and Tuesday flights 78.5%, against 68.1% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 92 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 4,582 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.07%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
80.9% on time across 681 flights
These figures cover 4,730 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.6% 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 DFW to AUS
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 80.9% of the time; American Airlines manages 64.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 3,614 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 681 | 80.9% | 48 min | 2.79% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 312 | 78.3% | 67 min | 2.24% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 123 | 71.9% | 68 min | 7.32% | C− |
| American Airlines | 3,614 | 64.7% | 74 min | 3.04% | D− |
American Airlines cancels 3.0% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
Flight by flight
Flights on DFW to AUS
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 Austin
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. 1 of the top 3 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → AUSDallas-Fort Worth to Austin | Envoy Air | 78.6% | 80.9% | 2.79% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 2. DAL → AUSDallas to Austin | Southwest Airlines | 76.1% | 76.9% | 1.03% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 3. DFW → AUSDallas-Fort Worth to Austin | American Airlines | 62.7% | 64.7% | 3.04% | 5am–8am, Tue | AA 2707 20:33 |
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 26 points, against 16 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am410 flights84.4%
- 8am–11am986 flights75.2%
- 11am–2pm652 flights70.9%
- 2pm–5pm774 flights66.5%
- 5pm–8pm981 flights62.4%
- 8pm–5am927 flights58.5%
Scale runs 50% to 90%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 58.5% on time, against 84.4% for the 5am–8am 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 986 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter DFW to AUS 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 AUS, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 84.4% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 58.5%, a wide gap of 25.9 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am84.4%
- 8–11am75.2%
- 11am–2pm70.9%
- 2–5pm66.5%
- 5–8pm62.4%
- 8pm–5am58.5%
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 19 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 58.2% on time, 19 points below February, the best at 77.4%. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 425 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 78.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 60.7%, a spread of 18 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 104,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 104,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 103,557 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 84.4% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.07%, 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
12.6% 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.
At 190 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 74.9% on time across 4,728 flights, 7 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 7 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 4,730 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 AUS after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.07% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; 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. 4,582 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to AUS questions
How often is DFW to AUS 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 31.9% of the 4,730 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to AUS?
Envoy Air leads at 80.9% on time across 681 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 64.7%, a gap of 16 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 AUS?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 84.4% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 58.5%, 26 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 AUS?
June is the weakest month at 58.2% on time, compared with 77.4% in February. Across the year that is 19 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
- AUS to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on DFW to AUS80.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to AUS78.3%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to AUS71.9%
- American Airlines on DFW to AUS64.7%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- DEN to AUS, a related route76.2%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- Envoy Air on-time record80.9%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record78.3%
- PSA Airlines on-time record71.9%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
Direction matters. DFW to AUS and AUS 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.