Route reliability record
DFW→EGE
Dallas-Fort Worth to Eagle
- Flights
- 876
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 721 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route draws a D. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 876 DFW to EGE flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
Best time to fly DFW to EGE: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 71.4% of the time and Wednesday flights 73.5%, against 64.3% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 130 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 849 completed flights
Avg delay
98 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.28%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
64.3% on time across 876 flights
These figures cover 876 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.5% 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 EGE
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 | 876 | 64.3% | 98 min | 2.28% | D |
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Dallas-Fort Worth to Eagle
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 2 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → ASEDallas-Fort Worth to Aspen | SkyWest Airlines | 65.3% | 68.4% | 4.47% | 8am–11am, Wed | — |
| 2. DFW → EGEDallas-Fort Worth to Eagle | American Airlines | 62.8% | 64.3% | 2.28% | 8am–11am, 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 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am1 flights—
- 8am–11am279 flights71.4%
- 11am–2pm252 flights59.8%
- 2pm–5pm34 flights—
- 5pm–8pm310 flights63.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 59.8% on time against 71.4% for 8am–11am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 310 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter DFW to EGE 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 EGE, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 71.4% on time and the worst is 11am–2pm at 59.8%, a wide gap of 11.6 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am71.4%
- 11am–2pm59.8%
- 2–5pm—
- 5–8pm63.2%
- 8pm–5am—
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 33 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 44.3% on time, against 77.1% in October. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 113 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 73.5% on time and Saturday the weakest at 59.7%, a spread of 14 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 30,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 30,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 to one. The split is drawn from 29,619 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 71.4% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.28% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.80%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
18.5% 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 721 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 68.2% on time across 876 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 876 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. 876 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 64.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 849 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to EGE questions
How often is DFW to EGE 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 35.7% of the 876 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
How reliable is DFW to EGE compared with the rest of the country?
64.3% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 13 points against it. That is worth a D on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to EGE?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 71.4% on time. The 11am–2pm window is the weakest at 59.8%, 12 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 EGE?
December is the weakest month at 44.3% on time, compared with 77.1% in October. Across the year that is 33 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
- EGE to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
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- DEN to EGE, a related route79.2%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- American Airlines on-time record64.3%
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- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to EGE and EGE 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.