Route reliability record
AMA→DFW
Amarillo to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 2,364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 312 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 2,364 AMA to DFW flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Best time to fly AMA to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 91.0% of the time and Wednesday flights 90.0%, against 86.0% for the route overall.
Set against the rest of the country, this route's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 87 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 2,307 completed flights
Avg delay
87 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.07%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
Envoy
86.6% on time across 1,903 flights
These figures cover 2,364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on AMA to DFW
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,903 | 86.6% | 70 min | 2.15% | A |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 342 | 84.3% | 127 min | 1.17% | B |
| American Airlinesthin sample | 119 | 81.7% | 191 min | 3.36% | B− |
Flight by flight
Flights on AMA to DFW
The flight numbers below flew this route at least 250 times in the period, busiest first. Each has its own record, with its schedule and delay causes.
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Best ways to make this trip
The most reliable ways to fly Amarillo to Dallas-Fort Worth
Every airline on this route and on the routes between nearby airports, ranked by how often a scheduled flight actually operated and arrived on time. 1 of the top 2 use a different airport at one end.
| Option | Airline | Success | On time | Cancelled | Best departure | Most punctual flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. AMA → DALAmarillo to Dallas | Southwest Airlines | 85.5% | 86.2% | 0.79% | 5am–8am, Wed | — |
| 2. AMA → DFWAmarillo to Dallas-Fort Worth | Envoy Air | 84.7% | 86.6% | 2.15% | 5am–8am, Wed | MQ 3388 19:06 |
Success is the share of scheduled flights that operated and arrived less than 15 minutes late, so a cancelled flight counts against it. “(route)” means the best time comes from every carrier on the route rather than this airline alone.
Departure window
The best time of day to leave
Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 12 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am818 flights91.0%
- 8am–11am343 flights90.1%
- 11am–2pm369 flights83.7%
- 2pm–5pm429 flights78.6%
- 5pm–8pm349 flights81.8%
- 8pm–5am56 flights85.2%
Scale runs 70% to 95%.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.0% of the time, against 78.6% for the afternoon window. That is 12 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 818 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter AMA to DFW by airline, time, month and day
Pick a breakdown and a carrier. The dashed mark on each row is the same slice for every US flight.
On AMA to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 91.0% on time and the worst is 2pm–5pm at 78.6%, a wide gap of 12.4 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am91.0%
- 8–11am90.1%
- 11am–2pm83.7%
- 2–5pm78.6%
- 5–8pm81.8%
- 8pm–5am85.2%
best all US flightsScale 60% to 95%.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 13 points from best month to worst, which is wide. An annual average tells you very little about the week you are actually flying, so read the strip rather than the headline if your dates are fixed.
June is the worst month at 79.5% on time, 13 points below February, the best at 92.3%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 227 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 90.0% on time and Saturday the weakest at 80.8%, a spread of 9 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 42% of the 28,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 17%Extreme weather
- 11%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 17% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 28,044 reported delay minutes.
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 28,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 3 to one.
Cancellations sit at 2.07% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.34%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
5.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 312 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 81.7% on time across 2,365 flights, 4 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 4 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 2,364 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.
Work out the risk of missing a connection in DFW after this flight
What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 92.3% on time and June 79.5%, a swing of 13 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 2,307 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
AMA to DFW questions
How often is AMA to DFW delayed?
About one flight in seven arrives at least 15 minutes late, which is the Department of Transportation's definition of a delayed arrival. That works out to 14.0% of the 2,364 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by an hour and a half on average.
How reliable is AMA to DFW compared with the rest of the country?
86.0% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 9 points in its favour. That is worth a A on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on AMA to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 91.0% on time. The 2pm–5pm window is the weakest at 78.6%, 12 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 AMA to DFW?
June is the weakest month at 79.5% on time, compared with 92.3% in February. Across the year that is 13 points between the best and worst months. Moving flexible dates out of that month is one of the few things that reliably helps.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to AMA — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on AMA to DFW86.6%
- SkyWest Airlines on AMA to DFW84.3%
- American Airlines on AMA to DFW81.7%
- AMA to DAL, a related route86.2%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- ATL to DFW, a related route73.9%
- Envoy Air on-time record86.6%
- SkyWest Airlines on-time record84.3%
- American Airlines on-time record81.7%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
Direction matters. AMA to DFW and DFW to AMA are scored separately because they are separate operations, with different departure banks and different aircraft. Compare the return leg.
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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.