Route reliability record
DFW→OKC
Dallas-Fort Worth to Oklahoma City
- Flights
- 3,158
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 175 mi
- Carriers
- 4
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 3,158 DFW to OKC flights, of which Envoy Air flew 1,039 at 83.6% on time.
Best time to fly DFW to OKC: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.7% of the time and Wednesday flights 79.9%, against 73.0% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 43 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 3,070 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.50%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
83.6% on time across 1,039 flights
These figures cover 3,158 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.0% 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 OKC
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 83.6% of the time; American Airlines manages 64.0%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,733 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 291 | 88.8% | 58 min | 1.37% | A |
| Envoy Air | 1,039 | 83.6% | 60 min | 2.41% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 95 | 71.4% | 86 min | 4.21% | C− |
| American Airlines | 1,733 | 64.0% | 74 min | 2.65% | D |
The spread between Envoy and American is 20 points, wide enough that it should decide the booking. On a hundred trips that is 20 more arrivals inside the on-time window.
Flight by flight
Flights on DFW to OKC
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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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Dallas-Fort Worth to Oklahoma City
Every airline on this route, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time, with its best departure time and most punctual flight number. No nearby airport pair beat these.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → OKCDallas-Fort Worth to Oklahoma City | Envoy Air | 81.6% | 83.6% | 2.41% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 2. DFW → OKCDallas-Fort Worth to Oklahoma City | American Airlines | 62.3% | 64.0% | 2.65% | 8am–11am, Tue | AA 1458 21:29 |
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 35 points, against 20 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am331 flights91.7%
- 8am–11am575 flights82.9%
- 11am–2pm356 flights75.4%
- 2pm–5pm640 flights74.0%
- 5pm–8pm636 flights67.6%
- 8pm–5am620 flights56.7%
Scale runs 50% to 95%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 56.7% on time, against 91.7% for the 5am–8am 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 640 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter DFW to OKC 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 OKC, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 91.7% on time and the worst is 8pm–5am at 56.7%, a wide gap of 35.0 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am91.7%
- 8–11am82.9%
- 11am–2pm75.4%
- 2–5pm74.0%
- 5–8pm67.6%
- 8pm–5am56.7%
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 16 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 66.0% on time, 16 points below September, the best at 81.9%. 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 300 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 79.9% on time and Sunday the weakest at 68.3%, a spread of 12 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 59,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 9%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 59,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 59,003 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 91.7% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.50%, 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
11.0% 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.
At 175 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 79.3% on time across 3,158 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.
The sample behind these figures is 3,158 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 OKC 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. September runs 81.9% on time and June 66.0%, a swing of 16 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 3,070 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to OKC questions
How often is DFW to OKC delayed?
About one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 27.0% of the 3,158 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 OKC?
Envoy Air leads at 83.6% on time across 1,039 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 64.0%, a gap of 20 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 OKC?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 91.7% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 56.7%, 35 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 OKC?
June is the weakest month at 66.0% on time, compared with 81.9% in September. Across the year that is 16 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
- OKC to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to OKC88.8%
- Envoy Air on DFW to OKC83.6%
- American Airlines on DFW to OKC64.0%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- DEN to OKC, a related route78.2%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record88.8%
- Envoy Air on-time record83.6%
- PSA Airlines on-time record71.4%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Same route, different airline: where the carrier you pick matters most
Direction matters. DFW to OKC and OKC 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.