Flights West Palm Beach → Dallas-Fort Worth
PBI → DFW
Route overview
The flight route from West Palm Beach to Dallas-Fort Worth operates with a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, serving the high-traffic Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport which sees over eighty-seven million passengers annually. With seventy-one percent of flights arriving on time and an average delay of twenty-three minutes, the service experiences moderate punctuality.
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 West Palm Beach (PBI) → Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) route is operated by American Airlines. Across 410 flights monitored in recent months, 69% arrived on time (within 15 min of schedule), with an average delay of 27 minutes. The cancellation rate is 2.44%. FlightGuard's average computed risk is 14.4/100 (low), updated in real time from weather, ATC delays, strikes, NOTAMs, fuel and flight history. At Dallas-Fort Worth the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes (main cause: atfm). Departing from West Palm Beach the average ATFM delay is 2.0 minutes.
Heading to Dallas-Fort Worth: what to expect in this direction
Flying from West Palm Beach (PBI) to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) heads north-west for about 1,772 km, a flight time of roughly 2h 38m.
Departures from West Palm Beach on this leg cluster in the morning window: about 50% of PBI-DFW flights take off then.
Air-traffic congestion: departing West Palm Beach the average ATFM delay is 2.0 min (atfm); arriving into Dallas-Fort Worth it is 2.0 min (atfm).
Across 410 tracked PBI-DFW flights, 69% left on time with an average delay of 27 min and a 2.4% cancellation rate.
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Airline punctuality on this route
| Airline | On-time | Average delay | Cancellations |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (AA) | 74% | 16 min | 3.0% |
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Frequently asked questions about PBI-DFW
On the West Palm Beach (PBI) -> Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) route, on-time performance is 69% with an average delay of 27 minutes, based on 410 tracked flights.
The cancellation rate on West Palm Beach-Dallas-Fort Worth is 2.44% across 410 monitored flights.
The route is operated by 1 airline: American 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.
