Route reliability record
VPS→DFW
Valparaiso to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,331
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 641 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 1,331 VPS to DFW flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.
Best time to fly VPS to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 88.7% of the time and Wednesday flights 80.1%, against 73.2% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 41 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,285 completed flights
Avg delay
111 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.78%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
70.6% on time across 1,020 flights
These figures cover 1,331 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.2% 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 VPS 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 | 159 | 83.3% | 137 min | 5.03% | B− |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 152 | 80.7% | 102 min | 1.32% | B |
| American Airlines | 1,020 | 70.6% | 110 min | 2.65% | C |
Flight by flight
Flights on VPS 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 Valparaiso 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. 4 of the top 5 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. ECP → DFWPanama City to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 81.9% | 83.5% | 1.89% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
| 2. PNS → DFWPensacola to Dallas-Fort Worth | American Airlines | 70.9% | 73.0% | 2.85% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 3. VPS → DFWValparaiso to Dallas-Fort Worth | American Airlines | 68.7% | 70.6% | 2.65% | 5am–8am, Wed | AA 2501 16:00 |
| 4. ECP → DFWPanama City to Dallas-Fort Worth | PSA Airlines | 67.2% | 70.7% | 4.89% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 5. PNS → DFWPensacola to Dallas-Fort Worth | PSA Airlines | 65.5% | 70.1% | 6.54% | 5pm–8pm, Fri | — |
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 29 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am365 flights88.7%
- 8am–11am11 flights—
- 11am–2pm364 flights76.4%
- 2pm–5pm364 flights60.0%
- 5pm–8pm227 flights64.7%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 88.7% of the time, against 60.0% for the afternoon window. That is 29 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.
Explore
Filter VPS 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 VPS to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 88.7% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 60.0%, a wide gap of 28.7 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am88.7%
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm76.4%
- 2–5pm60.0%
- 5–8pm64.7%
- 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 30 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 52.8% on time, 30 points below January, the best at 82.6%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 132 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 80.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 66.5%, a spread of 14 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 38,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 38,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 38,306 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 14,000 of the 38,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.78%, 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
12.2% 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 641 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 67.8% on time across 1,331 flights, 5 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 5 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,331 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. January runs 82.6% on time and June 52.8%, a swing of 30 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,285 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
VPS to DFW questions
How often is VPS 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 26.8% of the 1,331 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is VPS to DFW compared with the rest of the country?
73.2% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 4 points against it. That is worth a C on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on VPS to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 88.7% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 60.0%, 29 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 VPS to DFW?
June is the weakest month at 52.8% on time, compared with 82.6% in January. Across the year that is 30 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 VPS — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- PSA Airlines on VPS to DFW83.3%
- Envoy Air on VPS to DFW80.7%
- American Airlines on VPS to DFW70.6%
- VPS to ATL, a related route84.1%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- VPS to CLT, a related route78.6%
- PSA Airlines on-time record83.3%
- Envoy Air on-time record80.7%
- American Airlines on-time record70.6%
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Direction matters. VPS to DFW and DFW to VPS 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.