Route reliability record
DFW→JAC
Dallas-Fort Worth to Jackson
- Flights
- 749
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 1,047 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route draws a D. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 749 DFW to JAC flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
Best time to fly DFW to JAC: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 67.4% of the time and Wednesday flights 74.2%, against 62.6% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 147 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
62.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 729 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.87%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
62.6% on time across 749 flights
These figures cover 749 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
Fare search by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to JAC
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 | 749 | 62.6% | 79 min | 1.87% | D |
Flight by flight
Flights on DFW to JAC
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.
Timetable by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
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–11am318 flights67.4%
- 11am–2pm291 flights64.2%
- 2pm–5pm4 flights—
- 5pm–8pm136 flights48.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 40% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 48.9% on time, against 67.4% 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 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 318 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter DFW to JAC 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 JAC, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 67.4% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 48.9%, a wide gap of 18.5 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am67.4%
- 11am–2pm64.2%
- 2–5pm—
- 5–8pm48.9%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 40% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 20 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 54.7% on time, 20 points below October, the best at 75.0%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 100 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 74.2% on time and Saturday the weakest at 55.5%, a spread of 19 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 22,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 22,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 21,687 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 36%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 7,872 of the 22,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.87% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.80%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
15.6% 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.
The 1,047 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 68.6% on time across 749 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 749 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in JAC after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 749 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 62.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 729 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to JAC questions
How often is DFW to JAC 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 37.4% of the 749 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
How reliable is DFW to JAC compared with the rest of the country?
62.6% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 15 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 JAC?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 67.4% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 48.9%, 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 June delays on DFW to JAC?
June is the weakest month at 54.7% on time, compared with 75.0% in October. Across the year that is 20 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
- JAC to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- DEN to JAC, a related route82.4%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- American Airlines on-time record62.6%
- Flying to ski country: which routes into the mountains run on time
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to JAC and JAC to DFW are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
Embed DFW to JAC’s on-time badge on your site
Paste this into a web page. The badge shows the current on-time rate, cancellation rate and grade, and updates every month. Preview it, or build a badge for another route or airport.
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.