Route reliability record
LRD→DFW
Laredo to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,545
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 396 mi
- Carriers
- 3
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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 1,545 LRD to DFW flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Best time to fly LRD to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Friday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.9% of the time and Friday flights 89.0%, against 85.6% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 83 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,495 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.91%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
85.7% on time across 1,447 flights
These figures cover 1,545 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 LRD 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 24 | 86.4% | 368 min | 8.33% | A− |
| Envoy Air | 1,447 | 85.7% | 79 min | 2.63% | A |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 74 | 84.1% | 66 min | 6.76% | B− |
Flight by flight
Flights on LRD 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 matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 13 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am365 flights91.9%
- 8am–11am365 flights89.3%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm343 flights82.9%
- 5pm–8pm342 flights79.2%
- 8pm–5am130 flights81.1%
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 91.9% of the time, against 79.2% for the evening window. That is 13 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 LRD 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 LRD to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 91.9% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 79.2%, a wide gap of 12.7 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am91.9%
- 8–11am89.3%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2–5pm82.9%
- 5–8pm79.2%
- 8pm–5am81.1%
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 12 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 80.0%. February is the strongest month at 92.0%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 12 points. May was the busiest month here, with 152 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 89.0% on time and Saturday the weakest at 82.0%, a spread of 7 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 18,000 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%National Airspace System
- 23%Carrier
- 9%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 17,787 reported delay minutes.
33% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 5,884 minutes out of 18,000, against a national NAS share of 21%.
Cancellations run at 2.91%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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
5.7% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 396 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 runs 85.0% on time across 1,545 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
The sample behind these figures is 1,545 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.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.91% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,495 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
LRD to DFW questions
How often is LRD 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 14.4% of the 1,545 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
How reliable is LRD to DFW compared with the rest of the country?
85.6% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 8 points in its favour. That is worth a A on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on LRD to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 91.9% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 79.2%, 13 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 LRD to DFW?
November is the weakest month at 80.0% on time, compared with 92.0% in February. Across the year that is 12 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 LRD — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- ATL to DFW, a related route73.9%
- LGA to DFW, a related route70.1%
- PSA Airlines on-time record86.4%
- Envoy Air on-time record85.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record84.1%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. LRD to DFW and DFW to LRD 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.