Carrier performance at one airport

AA→DFW

American Airlines at Dallas/Fort Worth International

Departures: 164,984
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Routes: 25
Rank here: #10 of 10

American Airlines at Dallas-Fort Worth draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 164,984 flights, of which Envoy Air flew 64,201 at 83.6% on time.

Measured against the airport rather than the country, American Airlines runs 6 points behind the 72.8% weighted average across all carriers at DFW. That is the comparison worth making: every operator here works the same runways, the same airspace and the same weather.

On time

66.7%

160,048 completed departures

Avg delay

73 min

Across delayed flights only

Cancelled

2.68%

At DFW, this carrier only

Rank here

#10

Of 10 carriers clearing the floor at DFW

These figures cover 165,000 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.

Against the competition

Every carrier at DFW, ranked

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 83.6% of the time; American Airlines manages 66.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 164,984 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance of all carriers departing DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	64,201	83.6%	57 min	2.02%	B
Delta Air Lines	11,632	81.4%	88 min	2.59%	B
SkyWest Airlines	22,429	77.7%	82 min	2.89%	B
United Airlines	10,062	76.6%	86 min	1.62%	B
Alaska Airlines	2,459	76.1%	56 min	1.10%	B
PSA Airlines	22,290	74.7%	89 min	4.25%	C−
Frontier Airlines	10,947	74.1%	81 min	2.10%	C
Spirit Airlines	3,241	74.0%	74 min	3.95%	C−
JetBlue Airways	480	69.3%	99 min	3.12%	C−
American Airlines (this page)	164,984	66.7%	73 min	2.68%	C

PSA Airlines cancels 4.3% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.

Route by route

Where American Airlines flies from DFW

American Airlines operates 25 routes out of DFW with enough volume to report. Route records inside one carrier at one airport still spread widely, because a short shuttle and a transcontinental have very different exposure to a late inbound.

American Airlines routes from DFW
Route	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
DFW to PHX · Phoenix	4,612	72.5%	67 min	2.41%	C
DFW to LAX · Los Angeles	4,536	70.2%	64 min	2.25%	C
DFW to LGA · New York	4,311	64.0%	70 min	4.80%	D−
DFW to MIA · Miami	4,302	68.7%	72 min	2.37%	C
DFW to ORD · Chicago	4,301	67.5%	74 min	3.14%	C−
DFW to LAS · Las Vegas	4,003	67.1%	69 min	2.55%	C
DFW to MCO · Orlando	3,674	61.8%	68 min	2.56%	D
DFW to CLT · Charlotte	3,620	74.1%	65 min	2.21%	C
DFW to AUS · Austin	3,614	64.7%	74 min	3.04%	D−
DFW to SAT · San Antonio	3,531	64.5%	81 min	2.95%	D
DFW to DCA · Washington	3,303	73.6%	61 min	2.76%	C
DFW to SAN · San Diego	3,212	63.5%	66 min	2.43%	D
DFW to PHL · Philadelphia	3,188	71.8%	73 min	3.32%	C−
DFW to BNA · Nashville	3,122	66.2%	70 min	2.59%	C
DFW to SFO · San Francisco	3,096	58.2%	67 min	2.55%	D
DFW to DEN · Denver	2,935	62.7%	69 min	2.90%	D
DFW to SNA · Santa Ana	2,896	79.3%	60 min	2.42%	B
DFW to SEA · Seattle	2,735	65.0%	62 min	2.19%	C
DFW to BOS · Boston	2,658	64.9%	69 min	3.27%	D−
DFW to ATL · Atlanta	2,624	70.8%	70 min	2.59%	C
DFW to TPA · Tampa	2,608	65.9%	68 min	2.91%	C
DFW to IAH · Houston	2,513	59.9%	81 min	3.06%	D−
DFW to MSY · New Orleans	2,362	67.7%	78 min	2.62%	C
DFW to SLC · Salt Lake City	2,203	61.7%	65 min	2.68%	D
DFW to TUS · Tucson	2,116	68.9%	73 min	2.93%	C

Flight by flight

American Airlines flight numbers from DFW

59 American Airlines flight numbers leaving DFW flew their main route often enough to have a record of their own. Grouped by destination.

Departure window

Best time of day for this operation

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 28 points, against 17 points between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am15,396 flights83.4%
8am–11am33,226 flights77.7%
11am–2pm30,089 flights68.6%
2pm–5pm25,946 flights61.0%
5pm–8pm34,007 flights59.1%
8pm–5am26,320 flights55.8%

Scale runs 45% to 90%.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 55.8% on time, against 83.4% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 34,007 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Seasonal pattern

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.February best, June worst

June is the worst month at 55.0% on time, 19 points below February, the best at 74.3%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. July was the busiest month here, with 14,745 flights.

Delay causes

What holds this operation up

Late-arriving aircraft
49%
Carrier
33%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
6%
Security
0%

49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 3.87 million reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 3,870,937 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 2.68%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.

12.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

164,984 flights sit behind these numbers, which is a large enough sample that the headline rate is not moving on noise. Where a sub-group falls below 30 flights the site shows a dash instead of a percentage.

Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 74.3% on time and June 55.0%, a swing of 19 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 160,048 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Common questions

American Airlines at DFW

How often is American Airlines at DFW delayed?

About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 33.3% of the 164,984 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by a little over an hour on average.

Which airline is most reliable on American Airlines at DFW?

Envoy Air leads at 83.6% on time across 64,201 flights. American Airlines is at the other end on 66.7%, a gap of 17 points. Sample size matters as much as the percentage: a rate built from a few hundred flights moves around far more than one built from ten thousand.

What time of day has the fewest delays on American Airlines at DFW?

The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 83.4% on time. The 8pm–5am window is the weakest at 55.8%, 28 points behind. Later departures inherit delays from earlier flights the same aircraft has already flown, which is why the curve slopes the way it does.

How bad are June delays on American Airlines at DFW?

June is the weakest month at 55.0% on time, compared with 74.3% in February. Across the year that is 19 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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