Route reliability record
LBB→DFW
Lubbock to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 2,617
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 282 mi
- Carriers
- 4
This route earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 2,617 LBB to DFW flights, of which Envoy Air flew 1,571 at 86.7% on time.
Best time to fly LBB to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 90.3% of the time and Wednesday flights 86.7%, against 84.1% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 68 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,548 completed flights
Avg delay
101 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.45%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
86.7% on time across 1,571 flights
These figures cover 2,617 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 LBB to DFW
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 86.7% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 79.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 400 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlinesthin sample | 289 | 87.0% | 127 min | 4.50% | A− |
| Envoy Air | 1,571 | 86.7% | 93 min | 1.21% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines | 400 | 79.2% | 86 min | 2.75% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 357 | 75.1% | 126 min | 5.88% | B− |
Envoy leads SkyWest by 8 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Lubbock 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 3 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. LBB → DFWLubbock to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 85.7% | 86.7% | 1.21% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 2. LBB → DALLubbock to Dallas | Southwest Airlines | 83.9% | 84.9% | 1.14% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 3. LBB → DFWLubbock to Dallas-Fort Worth | SkyWest Airlines | 77.0% | 79.2% | 2.75% | 8am–11am, 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 16 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am742 flights90.3%
- 8am–11am554 flights88.1%
- 11am–2pm355 flights83.2%
- 2pm–5pm429 flights79.4%
- 5pm–8pm381 flights74.5%
- 8pm–5am156 flights77.1%
Scale runs 65% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.3% of the time, against 74.5% for the evening window. That is 16 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 742 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter LBB 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 LBB to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 90.3% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 74.5%, a wide gap of 15.8 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am90.3%
- 8–11am88.1%
- 11am–2pm83.2%
- 2–5pm79.4%
- 5–8pm74.5%
- 8pm–5am77.1%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
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.
Delays peak in November, when the on-time rate falls to 75.3%. August is the strongest month at 88.8%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 14 points. September was the busiest month here, with 265 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 86.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 82.3%, a spread of 4 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 41,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Carrier
- 17%Extreme weather
- 14%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 17% 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 2.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 41,029 reported delay minutes.
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 41,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations sit at 2.45% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.19%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
7.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 282 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 80.9% on time across 2,617 flights, 3 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 3 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,617 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 DFW 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. August runs 88.8% on time and November 75.3%, a swing of 14 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of November before you think about anything else. 2,548 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
LBB to DFW questions
How often is LBB to DFW delayed?
About one flight in six arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 15.9% of the 2,617 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
Which airline is most reliable on LBB to DFW?
Envoy Air leads at 86.7% on time across 1,571 flights. SkyWest Airlines is at the other end on 79.2%, a gap of 8 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.
What time of day has the fewest delays on LBB to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 90.3% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 74.5%, 16 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 November delays on LBB to DFW?
November is the weakest month at 75.3% on time, compared with 88.8% in August. 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 LBB — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- American Airlines on LBB to DFW87.0%
- Envoy Air on LBB to DFW86.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on LBB to DFW79.2%
- PSA Airlines on LBB to DFW75.1%
- LBB to DAL, a related route84.9%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- LBB to DEN, a related route77.1%
- American Airlines on-time record87.0%
- Envoy Air on-time record86.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record79.2%
- 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. LBB to DFW and DFW to LBB 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.