Route reliability record
DFW→BPT
Dallas-Fort Worth to Beaumont
- Flights
- 722
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 270 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route lands a B−, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 722 DFW to BPT flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Best time to fly DFW to BPT: a 2pm–5pm departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 90.6% of the time and Wednesday flights 83.0%, against 79.6% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
79.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 696 completed flights
Avg delay
123 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.19%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
SkyWest
78.6% on time across 654 flights
These figures cover 722 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.2% 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 BPT
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 Airthin sample | 68 | 89.1% | 56 min | 5.88% | A− |
| SkyWest Airlines | 654 | 78.6% | 127 min | 2.91% | B |
Flight by flight
Flights on DFW to BPT
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–11am—
- 11am–2pm327 flights80.9%
- 2pm–5pm32 flights90.6%
- 5pm–8pm44 flights87.8%
- 8pm–5am319 flights75.9%
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 2pm–5pm slot at 90.6% on time, ahead of 8pm–5am at 75.9%. 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 327 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter DFW to BPT 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 BPT, the best departure window is 2pm–5pm at 90.6% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 75.9%, a wide gap of 14.7 points. All US flights leaving 2pm–5pm ran 71.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm80.9%
- 2–5pm90.6%
- 5–8pm87.8%
- 8pm–5am75.9%
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 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.
December is the weak month at 71.2% on time, against 87.5% in September. 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, Wednesday is the strongest day at 83.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 72.0%, 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 17,000 reported delay minutes.
- 36%Extreme weather
- 33%Carrier
- 24%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 36% 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 6.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 17,498 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.19%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
9.2% 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 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 82.9% on time across 722 flights, 3 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 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 3.19% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 696 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to BPT questions
How often is DFW to BPT delayed?
About one flight in five arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 20.4% 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 DFW to BPT compared with the rest of the country?
79.6% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 2 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 BPT?
The 2pm–5pm departure window is the strongest at 90.6% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 75.9%, 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 December delays on DFW to BPT?
December is the weakest month at 71.2% on time, compared with 87.5% in September. 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
- BPT 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 record89.1%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record78.6%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. DFW to BPT and BPT 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.