Route reliability record
DFW→CLL
Dallas-Fort Worth to College Station
- Flights
- 1,187
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 164 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 1,187 DFW to CLL flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Best time to fly DFW to CLL: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Thursday. Flights in that window arrived on time 92.6% of the time and Thursday flights 90.9%, against 86.4% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 91 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,151 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.78%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
86.7% on time across 1,146 flights
These figures cover 1,187 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 CLL
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 | 1,146 | 86.7% | 56 min | 2.79% | A |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 41 | 77.5% | 72 min | 2.44% | B |
Flight by flight
Flights on DFW to CLL
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 11 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am362 flights92.6%
- 11am–2pm103 flights87.1%
- 2pm–5pm155 flights86.8%
- 5pm–8pm212 flights82.0%
- 8pm–5am355 flights82.1%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 92.6% of the time, against 82.0% for the evening window. That is 11 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 362 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter DFW to CLL 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 CLL, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 92.6% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 82.0%, a wide gap of 10.6 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am92.6%
- 11am–2pm87.1%
- 2–5pm86.8%
- 5–8pm82.0%
- 8pm–5am82.1%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
Twelve months, one bar each, drawn from the same 1,187 flights. The strip shows how much of this route's record is set by the calendar rather than by the operation.
Delays peak in April, when the on-time rate falls to 82.8%. August is the strongest month at 89.2%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 6 points. October was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 90.9% on time and Saturday the weakest at 79.9%, a spread of 11 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 8,854 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 8,854 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 8,854 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 92.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.78%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 164 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 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg runs 86.0% on time across 1,187 flights, within half 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 1,187 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.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: avoid the 5pm–8pm departure. It runs 82.0% on time against 92.6% for the 8am–11am slot, and that 11 points is the largest single thing you control here. Envoy Air is the strongest operator if the fares are close. 1,151 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to CLL questions
How often is DFW to CLL delayed?
About one flight in seven arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 13.6% of the 1,187 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is DFW to CLL compared with the rest of the country?
86.4% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 9 points in its favour. That is worth a A on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to CLL?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 92.6% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 82.0%, 11 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 CLL?
April is the weakest month at 82.8% on time, compared with 89.2% in August. Across the year that is 6 points between the best and worst months. The seasonal swing is modest enough that it should not decide when you travel.
Related
Where to go next
- CLL 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 record86.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record77.5%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to CLL and CLL 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.