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Southwest Airlines HOU to DAL on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
81%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
2.2%
89 flights
Avg arrival delay
12 min
57 min when late
Rank on route
#1 of 1
route average 81% on time

Key facts

  • Southwest Airlines flights on HOU to DAL arrived on time 81% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 2.2% were cancelled, and 6% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #1 of 1 airlines on this route, which averaged 81% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (37%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 73.1% on time, 1.5% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 77.1% on time, 1.4% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 86.7% on time, 0.0% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 80.1% on time, 1.4% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 82.2% on time, 7.7% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 88.8% on time, 0.6% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 92.4% on time, 7.6% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 87.8% on time, 0.9% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 75.9% on time, 0.8% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 81.0% on time, 0.6% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 79.5% on time, 1.7% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 68.0% on time, 2.2% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 73.7% 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 aircraft37%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion33%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)25%
  • Extreme weather5%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on HOU to DAL

4,047 Southwest Airlines flights tracked on this route; 89 cancelled, 11 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.