The sector is held by Alaska Airlines, Jet Linx Aviation, JSX Air, Meregrass Inc, NetJets Aviation and Southwest Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
HOU Houston to DAL Dallas
William P Hobby, the United States, to Dallas Love Field, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 19.6 times a day
- Great circle
- 386 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 04m
- Door to door
- 7h 49m
What HOU to DAL looks like
The HOU to DAL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Houston HOU to Dallas DAL is a short sector of 386 km by great circle, flown nonstop 19.6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 386 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 04m.
Houston HOU is a large airport in the network held here, 145 scheduled destinations and 205.5 departures a day. Dallas DAL has 190 destinations and 272.1 departures a day.
Houston and Dallas keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on HOU to DAL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOU to DAL | 19.57 | 137 | Alaska Airlines, Jet Linx Aviation, JSX Air, Meregrass Inc, NetJets Aviation, Southwest Airlines |
| DAL to HOU | 16.43 | 115 | Jet Linx Aviation, JSX Air, Meregrass Inc, Southwest Airlines |
6 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 19.6 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 252 departures a week on HOU to DAL, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 1h 04m block time on HOU to DAL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to HOU | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At HOU before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| HOU to DAL in the air, estimated | 64 min | 5h 34m |
| Formalities at DAL | 90 min | 7h 04m |
| Delivery run in Dallas | 45 min | 7h 49m |
| Door to door | 469 min | 7h 49m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for HOU to DAL is 7h 49m.
A courier who leaves Houston at 09:00 local is on the ground in Dallas at about 10:04 local and at the door by 12:19 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Dallas, the last useful departure from Houston is around 14:41 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 38 of them join HOU to DAL.
| Connecting at | HOU to hub, flights a day | Hub to DAL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas DFW | 6.14 | 1.5 | 416 | 3h 07m |
| New Orleans MSY | 6.14 | 6.29 | 1,187 | 3h 45m |
| Memphis MEM | 2.86 | 2.57 | 1,459 | 4h 09m |
| Birmingham BHM | 1.43 | 3.43 | 1,859 | 4h 22m |
| Kansas City MCI | 3 | 5.43 | 1,818 | 4h 28m |
| El Paso ELP | 3.14 | 6 | 1,989 | 4h 32m |
With 19.6 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
38 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Dallas DFW, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through DFW the routing covers 416 km against the 386 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 07m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 03m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, New Orleans MSY at 3h 45m and Memphis MEM at 4h 09m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 386 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 6h 02m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
If nothing suitable leaves Houston, Houston IAH is 38 km away by great circle and carries 197 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Dallas, Dallas DFW is 18 km away by great circle and carries 287 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Houston to Dallas yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for HOU to DAL in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
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