Flights Dallas → St. Louis
DAL → STL
Route overview
The flight route from Dallas to St. Louis operates with a Boeing 737-300 aircraft and has an on-time performance rate of 73%, with an average delay of 15.1 minutes when delays occur. The destination airport serves approximately 13,665,517 passengers annually, indicating high traffic and frequent flights along this route.
Your rights on this US flight (DOT)
US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under the US DOT rules, if your flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Amenities for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
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The Dallas (DAL) → St. Louis (STL) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 652 flights monitored in recent months, 74% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 14 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.53%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 21.5/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At St. Louis the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Dallas the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to St. Louis: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Dallas (DAL) to St. Louis (STL) heads north-east for about 878 km, a flight time of roughly 1h 31m.
Departures from Dallas on this leg cluster in the midday window: about 36% of DAL-STL flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Dallas the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into St. Louis it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 652 tracked DAL-STL flights, 74% left on time with an average delay of 14 min and a 1.5% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines (WN) | 73% | 6 min | 3.1% |
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Frequently asked questions about DAL-STL
On the Dallas (DAL) -> St. Louis (STL) route, on-time performance is 74% with an average delay of 14 minutes, based on 652 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Dallas-St. Louis is 1.53% across 652 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: Southwest Airlines.
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US flights have no statutory cash compensation for delays. Under US DOT rules, if the airline cancels or significantly changes your flight and you decline rebooking, you're owed an automatic refund of the unused ticket. The tarmac-delay limit is 3 hours (domestic) / 4 hours (international). Meals or hotels for controllable delays depend on each airline's contract of carriage.
