Dallas Airport (DFW): terminals, flights, arrivals and departures

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (IATA: DFW, ICAO: KDFW) is a primary hub for Dallas, USA. Our catalogue shows 0 departing routes and 10 arriving, with the airlines, frequencies and lowest peso (MXN) fares listed below.

Airport facts

DFW carries 10 routes and 4 airlines in our catalogue, totalling 153 weekly departures. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (ICAO KDFW) serves Dallas, the United States, in the America/Chicago zone (UTC−5 in July). Its coordinates (32.897233, -97.037695) are the basis of every distance on this site.

• IATA: DFW
• ICAO: KDFW
• City: Dallas
• Country: USA
• Time zone: America/Chicago
• Coordinates: 32.897233, -97.037695
• Airlines at the airport: 4

Time difference against Mexico City. In July, Dallas runs 1 h ahead of the Mexican capital (UTC−5 versus UTC−6). In January the airport operates on UTC−6, so the gap is not constant across the year: daylight saving shifts it. This is the calculation that decides whether a pre-booked ground connection still works.

Base of American Airlines. An airline basing here means aircraft and crews overnighting at the airport: more of its own services to rebook a disrupted passenger onto, and more early departures. The flip side is that at an airport dominated by one carrier the competitive pressure on fares is weaker than where several compete.

What each code is for. The IATA code (DFW) is what the bag tag and the ticket use; the ICAO code (KDFW) is what flight plans, NOTAMs and flight trackers use. To follow the inbound aircraft that will become your flight, ICAO is the one that returns reliable results. And if DFW is not printed on your bag tag, the bag was not checked through to here — worth catching at the counter.

Airlines at DFW

4 catalogued airlines operate routes to or from DFW: 2 full-service and 2 low-cost, with checked allowance from 0 to 25 kg. Alliances present: SkyTeam, oneworld. They cover 10 catalogued routes and 153 weekly departures. The table below lists each operator with its type, alliance and checked allowance.

Carriers in our catalogue operating routes to or from this airport, with type, alliance and economy baggage allowance:

What US DOT does not cover. The United States has no federal delay compensation: the Department of Transportation regulates refunds — your money back when the airline cancels or significantly changes the flight and you decline the alternative — but it does not require a payout for the hours you lost, the way EU261 does. The single federal exception is involuntary denied boarding from oversales, priced under 14 CFR Part 250; that is a different mechanism from delay and is not triggered by a late departure.

Routes to Dallas (DFW)

Our catalogue lists 10 routes into DFW, totalling 153 weekly departures and spanning 846 to 1,862 km. The busiest is MEX-DFW at ~45 flights a week; 2 of them carry a cached fare, spread across 1 audience profiles. Every row in this section comes from that same corridor catalogue, not from a live search.

What traffic DFW moves. By audience profile, the routes catalogued here split as: Mexico-US paisano corridor (10). That mix explains the airport’s seasonality: family corridors spike in December and Holy Week, leisure ones follow the holiday calendar, and regional ones stay flatter across the year.

Fare seasonality

1 routes at DFW carry a monthly minimum-fare breakdown. Between the cheapest and priciest months observed the gap reaches 29% on the widest route, which shows how much the date matters against the choice of airline at this airport.

Lowest detected fare by month on routes with data, in pesos (MXN). The cheapest versus dearest month helps you time the purchase:

The three peaks of the Mexican calendar. December, Holy Week and summer concentrate family and leisure demand at once, and in those windows price stops responding to normal lead time: cheap buckets sell out earlier and flexible fares go at a premium. Outside them, the usual pattern rewards buying 4 to 8 weeks ahead and travelling midweek. That window is a general Mexican-market rule of thumb, not a measurement of this route: our series records observed prices, not the lead time at which each ticket was bought.

What a ‘cheapest month’ means here. It is the minimum the automated query found for that month — not an average and not a guaranteed fare — and it usually corresponds to the least convenient date combination in the month. A month with no row is not an expensive month: it is a month with no data. With that caveat, the month-to-month comparison still holds because every cell was measured the same way.

Connection tips

DFW concentrates 153 catalogued weekly departures across 4 airlines, in the America/Chicago zone. That density is what decides how much slack to leave on a connection: the more of its own services the airline runs here, the more same-day rebooking options exist.

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport runs on the America/Chicago time zone; factor the offset from your origin city when planning connections and transfers. The busiest route at DFW is MEX-DFW (~45 flights a week). The lowest fare detected at this airport is $2,418 MXN on the QRO-DFW route. Book 4–8 weeks ahead for the busiest routes to/from Dallas; fares climb in December, Holy Week and summer. Each route guide above shows month-by-month seasonality and the lowest peso fare. That window is a general Mexican-market rule of thumb, not a measurement of this route: our series records observed prices, not the lead time at which each ticket was bought.

The cheap connection that loses the checked bag. Two separate tickets are not one itinerary: there is no interline agreement, the bag is not checked through to the final destination, and if the first flight lands late the second airline owes you nothing — it sold a different flight. The apparent saving evaporates the moment you buy a same-day replacement. On a single ticket, rebooking and the bag transfer are the carrier’s problem, not yours.

A US layover needs a visa too. The United States has no visa-free international transit: with a Mexican passport you need a B1/B2 or C-1 visa merely to change planes in Houston, Dallas, Miami or Atlanta, even without leaving the terminal. Every US connection forces you through immigration, bag reclaim, customs and re-check. A US-routed itinerary that looks cheaper can therefore be unusable if your visa has expired or is still in process.

Other airports in USA

12 further the United States airports appear in our catalogue besides DFW, with 40 routes between them. The best-connected is Los Angeles (LAX) with 9 routes, and the nearest sits ~362 km great-circle from DFW. The 12 distances in this section are measured from each airport’s own coordinates.

Other airports in the same country in our catalogue, with the number of catalogued routes — useful if you need an alternative gateway:

Great-circle distance is not the transfer. The figures in the table are geodesic, computed from each airport’s coordinates; the real journey depends on whether road, rail or a domestic flight exists, and on what they cost. An airport 300 km away can be more accessible than one at 120 km if the first has a direct motorway and the second does not. Use them to rule out, not to plan.

FAQ

The 9 questions on this record are answered from catalogue figures for DFW: routes and weekly frequencies, minimum fares observed by the collector, checked-baggage allowances and the rights regime that applies on each leg. No answer adds data that is not in those sources.

What are the IATA and ICAO codes for Dallas airport? The IATA code is DFW and the ICAO code is KDFW. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport serves Dallas, USA.

Which airlines operate at DFW? Airlines on our catalogued routes at DFW: Aeromexico, American Airlines, Volaris, VivaAerobus.

How many routes are there from Dallas (DFW)? Our catalogue lists 0 departing routes and 10 arriving at DFW — see the tables above.

What time zone is DFW in? DFW operates in the America/Chicago time zone.

How many weekly departures does DFW have in this catalogue? Across the catalogued routes touching DFW we count 153 weekly departures over 4 airlines and 10 routes. That is the coverage relevant to Mexican travellers, not the airport’s full directory.

What is the time difference between Dallas and Mexico City? In July, Dallas runs 1 h ahead of Mexico City (UTC−5 versus UTC−6). The gap shifts with daylight saving, so recompute it for your exact date before booking transfers.

What is the longest catalogued route at DFW? Catalogued routes at DFW span 846 to 1,862 km great-circle, computed from each airport’s coordinates. That distance drives aircraft type and the applicable compensation band on European sectors.

What is the lowest fare detected at DFW? $2,418 MXN on QRO-DFW, per the collector’s last pass across 2 routes with data at this airport. It is an observed one-way minimum, not a guaranteed price or a bookable offer.

Which airlines are based at DFW? American Airlines run DFW as a base. An airline based here keeps aircraft and crews overnight, so it has more of its own services to rebook a disrupted passenger onto the same day.

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Published by FlightsMX Editorial Team. Last verified: May 2026.