Route reliability record
DFW→LRD
Dallas-Fort Worth to Laredo
- Flights
- 1,545
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 396 mi
- Carriers
- 3
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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 1,545 DFW to LRD flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Best time to fly DFW to LRD: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Monday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.1% of the time and Monday flights 87.7%, against 85.0% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 77 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,496 completed flights
Avg delay
56 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.98%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
85.3% on time across 1,447 flights
These figures cover 1,545 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 LRD
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 | 1,447 | 85.3% | 54 min | 2.70% | A |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 24 | 81.8% | 65 min | 8.33% | B− |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 74 | 78.3% | 92 min | 6.76% | B− |
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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 14 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am365 flights91.1%
- 11am–2pm317 flights87.1%
- 2pm–5pm348 flights84.2%
- 5pm–8pm180 flights77.3%
- 8pm–5am335 flights80.9%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 91.1% of the time, against 77.3% for the evening window. That is 14 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 365 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter DFW to LRD 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 LRD, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 91.1% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 77.3%, a wide gap of 13.8 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am91.1%
- 11am–2pm87.1%
- 2–5pm84.2%
- 5–8pm77.3%
- 8pm–5am80.9%
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 1,545 flights. The strip shows how much of this route's record is set by the calendar rather than by the operation.
June is the worst month at 79.7% on time, 9 points below February, the best at 89.0%. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 152 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 87.7% on time and Saturday the weakest at 80.1%, a spread of 8 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 12,694 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 91.1% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.98%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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 4.6% 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 396 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 85.6% on time across 1,545 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 1,545 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: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.98% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,496 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to LRD questions
How often is DFW to LRD 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 15.0% of the 1,545 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is DFW to LRD compared with the rest of the country?
85.0% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 8 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 LRD?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 91.1% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 77.3%, 14 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 LRD?
June is the weakest month at 79.7% on time, compared with 89.0% in February. Across the year that is 9 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
- LRD 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 record85.3%
- PSA Airlines on-time record81.8%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record78.3%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to LRD and LRD 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.