Carrier route record
AAABQ→DFW
American Airlines · Albuquerque to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,718
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 76%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on ABQ to DFW lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 1,718 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on ABQ to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
81.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,668 completed flights
Avg delay
120 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.74%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.0%
Every carrier on ABQ to DFW, 2,269 flights
These figures cover 1,718 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on ABQ to DFW
American flew 1,718 of the 2,269 flights on ABQ to DFW, most of the route. Its 81.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 81.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 81.2% to SkyWest at 76.5%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
Only one carrier clears this site's 365-flight floor here, so there is no comparison to draw. The table below is the full picture.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,718 | 81.2% | 120 min | 2.74% | B |
| Envoy Air | 499 | 80.8% | 69 min | 1.40% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 52 | 76.5% | 55 min | 1.92% | B |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on ABQ to DFW
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 34 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am546 flights91.6%
- 8am–11am614 flights83.5%
- 11am–2pm230 flights74.3%
- 2pm–5pm191 flights57.6%
- 5pm–8pm137 flights73.1%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.6% of the time, against 57.6% for the afternoon window. That is 34 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 614 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on ABQ to DFW through the year
Delays peak in November, when the on-time rate falls to 72.7%. February is the strongest month at 87.7%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 15 points. April was the busiest month here, with 176 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 85.6% on time and Saturday the weakest at 74.9%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on ABQ to DFW runs when it is late
American on ABQ to DFW often beats the schedule: 761 of 1,668 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When American on ABQ to DFW is late it tends to be very late: 158 of its 314 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 85 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early761 flights45.6%
- Within 15 min593 flights35.6%
- 15–29 min late81 flights4.9%
- 30–59 min late75 flights4.5%
- 1–2 hours late73 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late85 flights5.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,668 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
71 of 339 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 46 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on ABQ to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 January 2026, 33 hours 41 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | 33 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 October 2025 | 26 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 June 2026 | 24 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 July 2026 | 23 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 July 2026 | 17 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 38,000 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Carrier
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 38,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 37,556 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 15,000 of the 38,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.74%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.5% 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.
The 569 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 65.0% on time across 1,717 flights, 16 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 16 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,718 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking American on ABQ to DFW
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 87.7% on time and November 72.7%, a swing of 15 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of November before you think about anything else. 1,668 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ABQ to DFW, every carrier
- American on DFW to ABQ, the return leg
- Envoy Air on ABQ to DFW80.8%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.