Route reliability record
DFW→LBB
Dallas-Fort Worth to Lubbock
- Flights
- 2,617
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 282 mi
- Carriers
- 4
This route lands a B, 4 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 a little over an hour on average. That rests on 2,617 DFW to LBB flights, of which Envoy Air flew 1,570 at 85.3% on time.
Best time to fly DFW to LBB: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.9% of the time and Tuesday flights 83.7%, against 80.9% 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
80.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,548 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.52%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
85.3% on time across 1,570 flights
These figures cover 2,617 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.0% 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 LBB
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 85.3% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 78.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 402 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,570 | 85.3% | 63 min | 1.08% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines | 402 | 78.8% | 99 min | 3.73% | B− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 357 | 75.8% | 89 min | 6.16% | B− |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 288 | 65.2% | 79 min | 4.17% | C− |
SkyWest Airlines cancels 3.7% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Dallas-Fort Worth to Lubbock
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 3 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → LBBDallas-Fort Worth to Lubbock | Envoy Air | 84.4% | 85.3% | 1.08% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 2. DAL → LBBDallas to Lubbock | Southwest Airlines | 76.1% | 77.1% | 1.27% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 3. DFW → LBBDallas-Fort Worth to Lubbock | SkyWest Airlines | 75.9% | 78.8% | 3.73% | 5am–8am, Mon | — |
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 22 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am213 flights91.9%
- 8am–11am613 flights89.9%
- 11am–2pm382 flights85.2%
- 2pm–5pm381 flights79.0%
- 5pm–8pm412 flights76.1%
- 8pm–5am616 flights69.7%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.9% of the time, against 69.7% for the overnight window. That is 22 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 616 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter DFW to LBB 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 LBB, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 91.9% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 69.7%, a wide gap of 22.2 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am91.9%
- 8–11am89.9%
- 11am–2pm85.2%
- 2–5pm79.0%
- 5–8pm76.1%
- 8pm–5am69.7%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 15 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 71.4% on time, against 86.4% in January. 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. September was the busiest month here, with 266 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 83.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 75.4%, a spread of 8 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 37,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 12%Extreme weather
- 11%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 37,315 reported delay minutes.
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 37,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one.
Cancellations run at 2.52%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
8.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 282 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 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.1% on time across 2,617 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.
The sample behind these figures is 2,617 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in LBB after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. January runs 86.4% on time and December 71.4%, a swing of 15 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 2,548 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to LBB questions
How often is DFW to LBB 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 19.1% of the 2,617 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.
Which airline is most reliable on DFW to LBB?
Envoy Air leads at 85.3% on time across 1,570 flights. SkyWest Airlines is at the other end on 78.8%, a gap of 7 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to LBB?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 91.9% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 69.7%, 22 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 LBB?
December is the weakest month at 71.4% on time, compared with 86.4% in January. Across the year that is 15 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
- LBB to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on DFW to LBB85.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to LBB78.8%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to LBB75.8%
- American Airlines on DFW to LBB65.2%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- DAL to LBB, a related route77.1%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- Envoy Air on-time record85.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record78.8%
- PSA Airlines on-time record75.8%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to LBB and LBB 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.