Route reliability record
DFW→VPS
Dallas-Fort Worth to Valparaiso
- Flights
- 1,331
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 641 mi
- Carriers
- 3
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 1,331 DFW to VPS flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
Best time to fly DFW to VPS: a 8am–11am departure, ideally on a Tuesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 82.7% of the time and Tuesday flights 74.7%, against 67.8% 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 95 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,291 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.70%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
62.1% on time across 1,020 flights
These figures cover 1,331 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.8% 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 VPS
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 159 | 87.3% | 65 min | 5.03% | A− |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 152 | 86.0% | 53 min | 0.66% | A+ |
| American Airlines | 1,020 | 62.1% | 76 min | 2.65% | D |
Flight by flight
Flights on DFW to VPS
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 Valparaiso
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. 4 of the top 5 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. DFW → ECPDallas-Fort Worth to Panama City | Envoy Air | 78.1% | 79.5% | 1.75% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 2. DFW → ECPDallas-Fort Worth to Panama City | PSA Airlines | 70.6% | 73.9% | 4.45% | 8am–11am, Wed | — |
| 3. DFW → PNSDallas-Fort Worth to Pensacola | American Airlines | 63.1% | 65.0% | 2.85% | 8am–11am, Tue | — |
| 4. DFW → PNSDallas-Fort Worth to Pensacola | PSA Airlines | 61.4% | 65.1% | 5.74% | 2pm–5pm, Wed | — |
| 5. DFW → VPSDallas-Fort Worth to Valparaiso | American Airlines | 60.5% | 62.1% | 2.65% | 8am–11am, Tue | AA 2501 13:10 |
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 27 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am11 flights—
- 8am–11am365 flights82.7%
- 11am–2pm364 flights64.4%
- 2pm–5pm201 flights55.3%
- 5pm–8pm188 flights72.4%
- 8pm–5am202 flights55.7%
Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 82.7% of the time, against 55.3% for the afternoon window. That is 27 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.
Explore
Filter DFW to VPS 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 VPS, the best departure window is 8am–11am at 82.7% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 55.3%, a wide gap of 27.4 points. All US flights leaving 8am–11am ran 83.9%.
- 5–8am—
- 8–11am82.7%
- 11am–2pm64.4%
- 2–5pm55.3%
- 5–8pm72.4%
- 8pm–5am55.7%
best all US flightsScale 45% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 33 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 47.2% on time, 33 points below October, the best at 80.4%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 132 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 74.7% on time and Saturday the weakest at 59.8%, a spread of 15 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 31,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 31,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 31,085 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 82.7% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.70%, 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
13.8% 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 641 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 73.2% on time across 1,331 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,331 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 VPS 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. October runs 80.4% on time and June 47.2%, a swing of 33 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,291 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
DFW to VPS questions
How often is DFW to VPS 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 32.2% of the 1,331 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 VPS compared with the rest of the country?
67.8% 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 VPS?
The 8am–11am departure window is the strongest at 82.7% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 55.3%, 27 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 VPS?
June is the weakest month at 47.2% on time, compared with 80.4% in October. Across the year that is 33 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
- VPS to DFW — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on DFW to VPS87.3%
- Envoy Air on DFW to VPS86.0%
- American Airlines on DFW to VPS62.1%
- DFW to ORD, a related route68.8%
- ATL to VPS, a related route83.8%
- DFW to ATL, a related route75.6%
- PSA Airlines on-time record87.3%
- Envoy Air on-time record86.0%
- American Airlines on-time record62.1%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. DFW to VPS and VPS 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.