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Southwest Airlines DAL to HOU on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
75%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
1.9%
79 flights
Avg arrival delay
15 min
55 min when late
Rank on route
#1 of 1
route average 75% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on DAL to HOU arrived on time 75% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 1.9% were cancelled, and 7% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #1 of 1 airlines on this route, which averaged 75% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (46%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 67.1% on time, 0.6% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 73.5% on time, 0.9% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 82.8% on time, 0.3% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 80.6% on time, 0.6% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 73.4% on time, 5.6% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 83.3% on time, 1.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 87.0% on time, 5.0% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 84.0% on time, 1.2% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 61.3% on time, 1.4% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 69.9% on time, 0.3% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 65.2% on time, 2.9% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 63.4% on time, 2.4% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 75.8% on time, 2.1% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft46%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)26%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion24%
  • Extreme weather4%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on DAL to HOU

4,053 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 79 cancelled, 3 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.