Route reliability record
DFW→BUR
Dallas-Fort Worth to Burbank
- Flights
- 728
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 1,231 mi
- Carriers
- 1
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 728 DFW to BUR flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
Best time to fly DFW to BUR: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 76.2% of the time and Tuesday flights 78.0%, against 69.3% 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 80 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 707 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.47%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
69.3% on time across 728 flights
These figures cover 728 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.5% 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 BUR
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 728 | 69.3% | 56 min | 2.47% | C |
Flight by flight
Flights on DFW to BUR
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 Burbank
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. 5 of the top 5 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → LAXDallas-Fort Worth to Los Angeles | Delta Air Lines | 87.8% | 89.2% | 1.59% | 5am–8am, Wed | DL 439 06:15 |
| 2. DFW → LAXDallas-Fort Worth to Los Angeles | Spirit Airlines | 78.5% | 81.5% | 3.67% | 8pm–5am, Tue | — |
| 3. DFW → LAXDallas-Fort Worth to Los Angeles | Frontier Airlines | 78.4% | 79.2% | 0.98% | 5am–8am, Thu | — |
| 4. DFW → SNADallas-Fort Worth to Santa Ana | American Airlines | 77.4% | 79.3% | 2.42% | 5am–8am, Fri (route) | — |
| 5. DFW → LAXDallas-Fort Worth to Los Angeles | American Airlines | 68.6% | 70.2% | 2.25% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
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 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am250 flights76.2%
- 11am–2pm115 flights73.0%
- 2pm–5pm3 flights—
- 5pm–8pm267 flights65.5%
- 8pm–5am93 flights57.1%
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 57.1% on time, against 76.2% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 267 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter DFW to BUR 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 BUR, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 76.2% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 57.1%, a wide gap of 19.1 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am76.2%
- 11am–2pm73.0%
- 2–5pm—
- 5–8pm65.5%
- 8pm–5am57.1%
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 22 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.
October is the best month on the calendar at 79.0% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. January was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 78.0% on time and Saturday the weakest at 61.6%, a spread of 16 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 41%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 12,133 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,918 of the 12,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.47% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.41%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
9.5% 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 1,231 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 81.9% on time across 728 flights, 13 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 13 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 728 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
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 728 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 69.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 707 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to BUR questions
How often is DFW to BUR delayed?
Roughly 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 30.7% of the 728 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is DFW to BUR compared with the rest of the country?
69.3% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 8 points against it. That is worth a C on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to BUR?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 76.2% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 57.1%, 19 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 April delays on DFW to BUR?
April is the weakest month at 56.9% on time, compared with 79.0% in October. Across the year that is 22 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
- BUR to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Hollywood Burbank (BUR) delay statistics
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- LAS to BUR, a related route78.9%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- American Airlines on-time record69.3%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
Direction matters. DFW to BUR and BUR 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.