DFW Dallas

How deep the DFW board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from DFW. This reads the same 287 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 147of the 287 destinations are flown by one airline
• 56destinations run less than once a day
• 92destinations have four or more departures a day
• 78.4%of the destinations name American Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at DFW

63 airlines appear on the DFW board and they do not hold it evenly. American Airlines is on 225 of the 287 destinations, 78.4 per cent of them, and on 88 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 1058.6 of the 1102.3 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Envoy Air on 90 destinations. 27 of the 63 airlines at DFW appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 225 of the 287 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a DFW sector is usually another American Airlines aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at DFW than the destination count does.

How much of the DFW board is daily

Of the 287 destinations, 231 are flown at least once a day and 56 are not, 32 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the DFW board is flown about twice a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: DFW to Temple (TPL) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 102.6 of the 1102.3 departures a day, 9.3 per cent of the whole board. The other 282 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at DFW usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Acapulco ACA	Mexico	Envoy Air	1	1,815	plan this
Ardmore ADM	the United States	OUA	1	156	plan this
Atlanta PDK	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,187	plan this
Chicago/Romeoville LOT	the United States	WUP	1	1,249	plan this
Cincinnati LUK	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,327	plan this
Comayagua XPL	Honduras	American Airlines	1	2,268	plan this
Dallas ADS	the United States	Ameriflight	1	20	plan this
Detroit YIP	the United States	Ameriflight	1	1,576	plan this
Duncan DUC	the United States	OUA	1	195	plan this
Fort Worth AFW	the United States	American Airlines	1	28	plan this

The ten destinations out of DFW where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 44 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from DFW

The desk holds the return direction for 100 of the 287 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into DFW runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Aguascalientes (AGU) at 2.6 out a day against 0.71 back, Dallas (DAL) at 1.5 out a day against 0.71 back and Mérida (MID) at 1.6 out a day against 0.86 back.

It runs the other way as well: New York (JFK) files 7 a day back into DFW against 1.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at DFW

DFW keeps America/Chicago time, nine hours behind Dubai in summer and ten hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 00:00 at DFW, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at DFW

7 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from DFW that lands inside it leaves around 07:49, on a modelled block of 9h 41m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DFW that lands inside it leaves around 05:33, on a modelled block of 10h 27m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from DFW that lands inside it leaves around 06:56, on a modelled block of 10h 04m. Those three departure times out of DFW are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where DFW turns up on the rest of this site

DFW carries two other pages on this site as well: the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the DFW transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 31 airport pair pages that start or end at DFW, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Dallas to Chicago (ORD), Dallas to Atlanta (ATL) and Dallas to Denver (DEN).

13 courier postings name DFW as the airport a courier here flies from: Fort Worth, Plano and Waco.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DFW already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 287 destinations above.