Route reliability record
SAV→DFW
Savannah to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,022
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 925 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 1,022 SAV to DFW flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Best time to fly SAV to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 89.5% of the time and Wednesday flights 82.4%, against 76.3% for the route overall.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate this route from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 988 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.84%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
76.2% on time across 865 flights
These figures cover 1,022 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.0% 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 SAV 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 | 129 | 78.2% | 102 min | 3.10% | B− |
| American Airlines | 865 | 76.2% | 104 min | 2.54% | B |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 28 | 72.0% | 68 min | 10.71% | C− |
Flight by flight
Flights on SAV 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 33 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am364 flights89.5%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm73 flights81.7%
- 2pm–5pm374 flights73.1%
- 5pm–8pm211 flights56.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 56.9% on time, against 89.5% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 374 flights scheduled in it.
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Filter SAV 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 SAV to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 89.5% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 56.9%, a wide gap of 32.6 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am89.5%
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm81.7%
- 2–5pm73.1%
- 5–8pm56.9%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 50% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 17 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.
January is the weak month at 67.2% on time, against 83.9% in February. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 112 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 82.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 69.3%, a spread of 13 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 24,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 24,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 23,997 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 89.5% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.84%, against 1.89% 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
10.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 925 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 65.9% on time across 1,023 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 1,022 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
Booking this route
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.84% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; 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. 988 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
SAV to DFW questions
How often is SAV to DFW delayed?
About one flight in four arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 23.7% of the 1,022 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is SAV to DFW compared with the rest of the country?
76.3% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of about a point against it. That is worth a B on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on SAV to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 89.5% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 56.9%, 33 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 January delays on SAV to DFW?
January is the weakest month at 67.2% on time, compared with 83.9% in February. Across the year that is 17 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 SAV — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on SAV to DFW78.2%
- American Airlines on SAV to DFW76.2%
- SAV to ATL, a related route87.1%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- SAV to CLT, a related route86.0%
- PSA Airlines on-time record78.2%
- American Airlines on-time record76.2%
- Envoy Air on-time record72.0%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. SAV to DFW and DFW to SAV 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.