Route reliability record
DFW→PVU
Dallas-Fort Worth to Provo
- Flights
- 758
- Period
- July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 758 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 Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 77.3% of the time and Wednesday flights 81.1%, against 75.2% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, 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
75.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 738 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.24%
National rate is 1.81%
Best carrier
SkyWest
75.9% on time across 734 flights
These figures cover 758 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
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 | 734 | 75.9% | 80 min | 2.32% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 24 | 54.2% | 65 min | 0.00% | F+ |
Flight by flight
Flights on DFW to PVU
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.
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 | 80.3% | 81.5% | 1.51% | 8am–11am, Wed | DL 1291 08:10 |
| 2. DFW → PVUDallas-Fort Worth to Provo | SkyWest Airlines | 74.1% | 75.9% | 2.32% | 11am–2pm, Wed (route) | OO 6321 11:40 |
| 3. DFW → SLCDallas-Fort Worth to Salt Lake City | American Airlines | 58.6% | 60.6% | 3.25% | 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 758 flights.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm365 flights77.3%
- 2pm–5pm1 flights—
- 5pm–8pm177 flights70.1%
- 8pm–5am215 flights75.7%
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 77.3% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 70.1%. 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.
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. July was the busiest month here, with 93 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 81.1% on time and Monday the weakest at 69.8%. 11 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 14,000 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Carrier
- 28%Extreme weather
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 28% 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 4.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 14,396 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 5,979 of the 14,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.24% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.40%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 81.1% on time across 759 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 758 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. 758 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 75.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 738 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 24.8% of the 758 flights in this analysis, against 22.4% 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?
75.2% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.6%, 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 77.3% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 70.1%, 7 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 route67.6%
- DFW to LGA, a related route67.1%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.8%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record75.9%
- American Airlines on-time record54.2%
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.