Route reliability record
PVU→DFW
Provo to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 723
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 958 mi
- Carriers
- 2
This route lands a B, 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 723 PVU to DFW flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Best time to fly PVU to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 92.4% of the time and Wednesday flights 90.1%, against 83.9% 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 66 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 703 completed flights
Avg delay
116 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.80%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
SkyWest
85.4% on time across 681 flights
These figures cover 723 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.7% 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 PVU 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 681 | 85.4% | 125 min | 1.76% | A |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 42 | 60.0% | 59 min | 2.38% | D |
Flight by flight
Flights on PVU 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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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Provo 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. 2 of the top 3 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. PVU → DFWProvo to Dallas-Fort Worth | SkyWest Airlines | 83.9% | 85.4% | 1.76% | 5am–8am, Wed (route) | OO 4980 13:34 |
| 2. SLC → DFWSalt Lake City to Dallas-Fort Worth | Delta Air Lines | 80.6% | 81.6% | 1.23% | 8am–11am, Wed | DL 2798 07:45 |
| 3. SLC → DFWSalt Lake City to Dallas-Fort Worth | American Airlines | 76.5% | 78.7% | 2.82% | 5am–8am, Wed | AA 1214 05:00 |
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 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am361 flights92.4%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm115 flights69.4%
- 2pm–5pm247 flights78.2%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The weak window here is the middle of the day, not the evening: 11am–2pm runs 69.4% on time against 92.4% for 5am–8am. That shape usually means a departure bank rather than an accumulating delay, so the recovery later in the afternoon is real rather than noise. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 361 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter PVU 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 PVU to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 92.4% on time and the worst is 11am–2pm at 69.4%, a wide gap of 23.0 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am92.4%
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm69.4%
- 2–5pm78.2%
- 5–8pm—
- 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.
October is the best month on the calendar at 90.3% on time. Shoulder season thins the schedule and takes the summer weather with it, and the operation gets its margin back. January was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.1% on time and Thursday the weakest at 78.2%, a spread of 12 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Carrier accounts for 69% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 69%Carrier
- 17%Late-arriving aircraft
- 10%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
The largest share of delay minutes, 69%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 9,068 of the 13,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 13,083 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations sit at 1.80% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.97%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
8.7% 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.
The 958 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 75.7% on time across 723 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 723 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. 723 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 83.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 703 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
PVU to DFW questions
How often is PVU 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 16.1% of the 723 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is PVU to DFW compared with the rest of the country?
83.9% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 7 points in its favour. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on PVU to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 92.4% on time. The 11am–2pm window is the weakest at 69.4%, 23 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 May delays on PVU to DFW?
May is the weakest month at 76.4% on time, compared with 90.3% in October. 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 PVU — 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%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record85.4%
- American Airlines on-time record60.0%
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
Direction matters. PVU to DFW and DFW to PVU 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.