Detroit to Dallas/Fort Worth nonstop
Yes: American, Delta and Frontier fly direct from Detroit (DTW) to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) about 10 times a day, year-round.
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Detroit to Dallas/Fort Worth in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 986 miles nonstop, about 2 hr 35 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year: busiest in July 2026 (70 flights a week), quietest in January 2026 (53 flights a week).
- Sep 2025: 66 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 70 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 69 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 67 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 53 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 56 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 62 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 70 flights a week
- May 2026: 66 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 65 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 70 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 69 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- American 46%, Delta 42%, Frontier 11%, Envoy under 1% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 7,435 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $75 and $300 one way, median $175. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $300, 7,203 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $175 one way, middle half $100 to $300, 7,286 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $75 to $300, 6,081 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $175 one way, middle half $75 to $300, 7,435 tickets
Fares held steady through the year: a median of $175 one way in every quarter of the DOT ticket survey (Q3 2024 to Q2 2025). Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Dallas/Fort Worth to Detroit nonstop.
Other airports near Detroit with nonstops to Dallas/Fort Worth
Within about 100 miles of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
Also nonstop from Detroit (DTW)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 18 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 13 times a day
- Philadelphia (PHL) about 9 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 9 times a day
- Charlotte (CLT) about 9 times a day
- Newark (EWR) about 8 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 8 times a day
- Orlando (MCO) about 8 times a day
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