Route reliability record
EGE→DFW
Eagle to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 874
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Distance
- 721 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is close to two hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 874 EGE to DFW flights, with a median arrival 1 minute 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 79.1%, against 66.6% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so this route runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 110 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 845 completed flights
Avg delay
116 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.75%
National rate is 1.81%
Best carrier
American
66.6% on time across 874 flights
These figures cover 874 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 17.3% 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 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 | 874 | 66.6% | 116 min | 2.75% | C |
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 | 64.8% | 66.6% | 2.75% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 2. ASE → DFWAspen to Dallas-Fort Worth | SkyWest Airlines | 60.0% | 65.4% | 8.19% | 5am–8am, Wed | OO 6407 12:39 |
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. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.
- 5am–8am59 flights81.0%
- 8am–11am415 flights71.0%
- 11am–2pm175 flights66.5%
- 2pm–5pm220 flights54.2%
- 5pm–8pm5 flights—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% 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 54.2% 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 415 flights scheduled in it.
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 75.0% in May. 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 79.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 56.3%. 23 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 33,000 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 33,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 32,675 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 81.0% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.75%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 17.3% 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 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. 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 62.5% on time across 874 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. 874 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 DFW after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 874 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 66.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 845 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 33.4% of the 874 flights in this analysis, against 22.4% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is EGE to DFW compared with the rest of the country?
66.6% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.6%, a difference of 11 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 54.2%, 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 December delays on EGE to DFW?
December is the weakest month at 52.1% on time, compared with 75.0% in May. 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
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- EGE to DEN, a related route76.2%
- ORD to DFW, a related route69.7%
- LGA to DFW, a related route70.8%
- American Airlines on-time record66.6%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.