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Southwest Airlines DAL to DEN on-time performance

Southwest Airlines nonstop flights from Dallas to Denver · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
70%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
1.4%
41 flights
Avg arrival delay
18 min
57 min when late
Rank on route
#1 of 1
route average 70% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on DAL to DEN arrived on time 70% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 1.4% were cancelled, and 10% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #1 of 1 airlines on this route, which averaged 70% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (45%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 63.3% on time, 1.7% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 63.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 69.1% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 69.5% on time, 0.4% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 74.3% on time, 5.1% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 70.6% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 82.5% on time, 3.6% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 78.4% on time, 0.9% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 72.1% on time, 0.4% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 71.5% on time, 0.4% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 58.6% on time, 1.9% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 58.6% on time, 2.3% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 70.1% on time, 1.5% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft45%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)27%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion23%
  • Extreme weather5%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on DAL to DEN

2,985 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 41 cancelled, 8 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.