Route reliability record
EGE→DFW
Eagle to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 876
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 721 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about 2.2 hours behind schedule. That rests on 876 EGE to DFW flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Best time to fly EGE to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 81.0% of the time and Wednesday flights 77.3%, against 68.2% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 91 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 851 completed flights
Avg delay
133 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.51%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
68.2% on time across 876 flights
These figures cover 876 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.1% 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 EGE to DFW
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 876 | 68.2% | 133 min | 2.51% | C |
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Eagle to Dallas-Fort Worth
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. 1 of the top 2 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. EGE → DFWEagle to Dallas-Fort Worth | American Airlines | 66.5% | 68.2% | 2.51% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 2. ASE → DFWAspen to Dallas-Fort Worth | SkyWest Airlines | 63.5% | 68.3% | 7.00% | 5pm–8pm, Wed | — |
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 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am59 flights81.0%
- 8am–11am417 flights71.5%
- 11am–2pm174 flights66.9%
- 2pm–5pm221 flights59.3%
- 5pm–8pm5 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 81.0% of the time, against 59.3% for the afternoon window. That is 22 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 417 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter EGE to DFW 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 EGE to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 81.0% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 59.3%, a wide gap of 21.7 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am81.0%
- 8–11am71.5%
- 11am–2pm66.9%
- 2–5pm59.3%
- 5–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
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.
December is the weak month at 52.1% on time, against 75.3% in August. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 114 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 77.3% on time and Saturday the weakest at 60.9%, a spread of 16 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 36,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 36,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. The split is drawn from 35,961 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 13,000 of the 36,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.51%, 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
18.1% 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 721 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 64.3% on time across 876 flights, 4 points below 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 4 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 876 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.
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What to do with this
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Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 876 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 68.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 851 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
EGE to DFW questions
How often is EGE to DFW 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 31.8% of the 876 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about 2.2 hours on average.
How reliable is EGE to DFW compared with the rest of the country?
68.2% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 9 points against it. That is worth a C on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on EGE to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 81.0% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 59.3%, 22 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 December delays on EGE to DFW?
December is the weakest month at 52.1% on time, compared with 75.3% in August. 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
- DFW to EGE — the return legseparate record
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- ATL to DFW, a related route73.9%
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Direction matters. EGE to DFW and DFW to EGE 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.