Route reliability record
DFW→PVU
Dallas-Fort Worth to Provo
- Flights
- 723
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 958 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 723 DFW to PVU flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Best time to fly DFW to PVU: a 11am–2pm departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 78.2% of the time and Tuesday flights 85.1%, against 75.7% 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
75.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 707 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.66%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
SkyWest
76.2% on time across 681 flights
These figures cover 723 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.3% 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 PVU
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 681 | 76.2% | 71 min | 1.76% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 42 | 66.7% | 59 min | 0.00% | C+ |
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Dallas-Fort Worth to Provo
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. 2 of the top 3 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → SLCDallas-Fort Worth to Salt Lake City | Delta Air Lines | 81.9% | 83.1% | 1.44% | 8am–11am, Sat | DL 1291 08:10 |
| 2. DFW → PVUDallas-Fort Worth to Provo | SkyWest Airlines | 74.9% | 76.2% | 1.76% | 11am–2pm, Tue (route) | — |
| 3. DFW → SLCDallas-Fort Worth to Salt Lake City | American Airlines | 60.0% | 61.7% | 2.68% | 8am–11am, Tue | AA 1456 13:20 |
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 is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 723 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm365 flights78.2%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm115 flights69.9%
- 8pm–5am243 flights74.6%
Scale runs 60% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 78.2% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 69.9%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter DFW to PVU 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 PVU, the best departure window is 11am–2pm at 78.2% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 69.9%, a real gap of 8.3 points. All US flights leaving 11am–2pm ran 78.3%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm78.2%
- 2–5pm—
- 5–8pm69.9%
- 8pm–5am74.6%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 18 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.
January is the weak month at 67.2% on time, against 85.0% in December. 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. January was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 68.7%, a spread of 16 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 49% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Carrier
- 23%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 19% 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 3.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 12,110 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 49%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,928 of the 12,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.66% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.55%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
9.3% 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 958 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 83.9% on time across 723 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 723 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 PVU after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 723 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 75.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 707 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to PVU questions
How often is DFW to PVU 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 24.3% of the 723 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 PVU compared with the rest of the country?
75.7% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 2 points against it. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on DFW to PVU?
The 11am–2pm departure window is the strongest at 78.2% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 69.9%, 8 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 January delays on DFW to PVU?
January is the weakest month at 67.2% on time, compared with 85.0% in December. Across the year that is 18 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
- PVU 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%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record76.2%
- American Airlines on-time record66.7%
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. DFW to PVU and PVU 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.