Carrier route record

AAAMA→DFW

American Airlines · Amarillo to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 118
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 5%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.

American on AMA to DFW earns a B−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 3.0 hours. That rests on 118 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, American's AMA to DFW record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 66 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 114 completed flights

Avg delay

182 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.39%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

84.7%

Every carrier on AMA to DFW, 2,370 flights

These figures cover 118 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

American against every carrier on AMA to DFW

American flew 118 of the 2,370 flights on AMA to DFW, about 5% of it. Its 84.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 84.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.0% to SkyWest at 82.7%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on AMA to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,970	85.0%	71 min	2.34%	A
American Airlines (this page)thin sample	118	84.2%	182 min	3.39%	B−
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	282	82.7%	121 min	1.42%	B

Departure window

When American runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 118 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's AMA to DFW record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 84.2% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

American on AMA to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202535 flights82.4%
Oct–Dec 202532 flights81.2%
Jan–Mar 20263 flights—
Apr–Jun 202648 flights86.7%

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 84.2% on time across 118 flights.

Quarter by quarter American on AMA to DFW held fairly steady: 82.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.2% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 86.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 75% of the 3,272 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
75%
Late-arriving aircraft
16%
National Airspace System
4%
Extreme weather
4%

The largest share of delay minutes, 75%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,441 of the 3,272 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,272 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations run at 3.39%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

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 42.1% on time across 118 flights, 42 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 42 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 118 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking American on AMA to DFW

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.39% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 3.0 hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 114 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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