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Love Field (DAL) departure delays

Name: Love Field (DAL) departure delays
Creator: FlightLabs

Of 6,035 sampled departures, 58.7% left 15 minutes or more behind schedule. Average lateness was 31.2 minutes. Sample window: Nov 15, 2025 to May 7, 2026.

These are historical aggregates, not live status. A departure is late at 15 minutes past schedule.

When departures are on time

Best hour to depart: 23:00–23:59, 18.5% late.
Best day of week: Tuesday, 52.7% late.

Airlines with the most late departures

Airline	Flights sampled	Late	Average lateness
ChallengAir (1I)	326	82.2%	48.4 min
Expressjet (XE)	135	80.0%	36.0 min
Japan Airlines (JL)	33	78.8%	46.3 min
Southwest Airlines Co. (WN)	4,027	69.0%	35.8 min
Delta Air Lines (DL)	101	37.6%	19.4 min

Routes from DAL

DAL to HOU — 106 flights per week
DAL to LAS — 92 flights per week
DAL to PHX — 88 flights per week
DAL to DEN — 83 flights per week
DAL to SAT — 80 flights per week
DAL to MCO — 76 flights per week

The departures that are late right now

58.7% of this DAL sample left 15 minutes late or more. GET /flight_delays returns the ones that are late at this moment: airline, flight number, scheduled time, actual time and minutes of delay.

https://www.goflightlabs.com/flight_delays?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY&delay=15&type=departures&dep_iata=DAL

Example response

Field names match the live API. This flight only shows the shape. It is not a live result.

{ "success": true, "data": [ { "airline_iata": "AA", "flight_iata": "AA100", "flight_number": "100", "dep_iata": "DAL", "dep_time": "2024-03-15 08:00", "dep_actual": "2024-03-15 08:22", "dep_delayed": 22, "status": "active" } ] }

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