Route reliability record
DFW→OMA
Dallas-Fort Worth to Omaha
- Flights
- 1,558
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 583 mi
- Carriers
- 4
This route draws a C. About 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 1,558 DFW to OMA flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
Best time to fly DFW to OMA: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 79.8% of the time and Wednesday flights 75.3%, against 67.5% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 98 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,514 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.63%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
64.7% on time across 1,346 flights
These figures cover 1,558 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.9% 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 OMA
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 Airthin sample | 183 | 86.7% | 49 min | 1.64% | A |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 24 | 81.8% | 80 min | 8.33% | B− |
| American Airlines | 1,346 | 64.7% | 71 min | 2.67% | D |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 60.0% | 135 min | 0.00% | D+ |
Flight by flight
Flights on DFW to OMA
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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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 30 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am310 flights79.8%
- 8am–11am189 flights78.7%
- 11am–2pm261 flights75.9%
- 2pm–5pm337 flights64.7%
- 5pm–8pm124 flights50.0%
- 8pm–5am337 flights52.3%
Scale runs 40% to 85%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 50.0% on time, against 79.8% 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 337 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter DFW to OMA 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 OMA, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 79.8% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 50.0%, a wide gap of 29.8 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am79.8%
- 8–11am78.7%
- 11am–2pm75.9%
- 2–5pm64.7%
- 5–8pm50.0%
- 8pm–5am52.3%
best all US flightsScale 40% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 23 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.
July is the worst month at 54.7% on time, 23 points below September, the best at 78.0%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 148 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 75.3% on time and Saturday the weakest at 60.8%, a spread of 15 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 35,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 35,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 34,655 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 79.8% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.63%, 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
11.9% 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 583 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 77.3% on time across 1,557 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,558 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 calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 78.0% on time and July 54.7%, a swing of 23 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,514 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to OMA questions
How often is DFW to OMA 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 32.5% of the 1,558 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 OMA compared with the rest of the country?
67.5% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 10 points against it. That is worth a C on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to OMA?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 79.8% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 50.0%, 30 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 July delays on DFW to OMA?
July is the weakest month at 54.7% on time, compared with 78.0% in September. Across the year that is 23 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
- OMA to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on DFW to OMA86.7%
- American Airlines on DFW to OMA64.7%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- DEN to OMA, a related route76.9%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- Envoy Air on-time record86.7%
- PSA Airlines on-time record81.8%
- American Airlines on-time record64.7%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to OMA and OMA 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.