Route reliability record
FAR→DFW
Fargo to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,086
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 967 mi
- Carriers
- 1
This route earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 1,086 FAR to DFW flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Best time to fly FAR to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Monday. Flights in that window arrived on time 90.3% of the time and Monday flights 90.4%, against 86.2% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 89 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,059 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.93%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
86.2% on time across 1,086 flights
These figures cover 1,086 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on FAR 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,086 | 86.2% | 66 min | 1.93% | A |
Flight by flight
Flights on FAR to DFW
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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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 1,086 flights.
- 5am–8am365 flights90.3%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm326 flights87.4%
- 2pm–5pm97 flights83.9%
- 5pm–8pm298 flights80.7%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.3% of the time, against 80.7% for the evening window. That is 10 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter FAR 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 FAR to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 90.3% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 80.7%, a real gap of 9.6 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am90.3%
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm87.4%
- 2–5pm83.9%
- 5–8pm80.7%
- 8pm–5am—
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 14 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 75.6% on time, 14 points below December, the best at 89.9%. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 94 flights.
Across the week, Monday is the strongest day at 90.4% on time and Saturday the weakest at 81.1%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 9,557 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%National Airspace System
- 20%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,557 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 9,557 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 90.3% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.93% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.55%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 967 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 runs 85.2% on time across 1,086 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 1,086 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. 1,086 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 86.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 1,059 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
FAR to DFW questions
How often is FAR to DFW delayed?
About one flight in seven arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 13.8% of the 1,086 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by about an hour on average.
How reliable is FAR to DFW compared with the rest of the country?
86.2% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 9 points in its favour. That is worth a A on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on FAR to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 90.3% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 80.7%, 10 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 FAR to DFW?
June is the weakest month at 75.6% on time, compared with 89.9% in December. Across the year that is 14 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 FAR — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- FAR to ORD, a related route73.0%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- FAR to DEN, a related route72.6%
- Envoy Air on-time record86.2%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. FAR to DFW and DFW to FAR 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.