Flights Houston → Dallas
HOU → DAL
Route overview
The flight route from Houston to Dallas operates with a Boeing 737-500 and Boeing 737-300 aircraft, serving the highly trafficked Dallas airport which handles over seventeen million passengers annually. With a mean delay of 9.4 minutes and a 79% on-time performance rate, this route maintains relatively high punctuality despite handling a significant number of flights per year, totaling 1032 flights.
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 Houston (HOU) → Dallas (DAL) route is operated by Southwest Airlines. Across 1376 flights monitored in recent months, 79% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 10 minutes. The cancellation rate is 1.53%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 22.5/100 (medium), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Dallas the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from Houston the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Dallas: what to expect in this direction
Flying from Houston (HOU) to Dallas (DAL) heads north for about 386 km, a flight time of roughly 54m.
Departures from Houston on this leg cluster in the overnight window: about 34% of HOU-DAL flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing Houston the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Dallas it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 1,376 tracked HOU-DAL flights, 79% left on time with an average delay of 10 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 HOU-DAL
On the Houston (HOU) -> Dallas (DAL) route, on-time performance is 79% with an average delay of 10 minutes, based on 1376 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on Houston-Dallas is 1.53% across 1376 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.
