Route reliability record
AVL→DFW
Asheville to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 719
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Distance
- 848 mi
- Carriers
- 3
This route sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 719 AVL to DFW flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Best time to fly AVL to DFW: a 5am–8am departure, ideally on a Wednesday. Flights in that window arrived on time 81.7% of the time and Wednesday flights 75.5%, against 70.9% for the route overall.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so this route runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 64 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 698 completed flights
Avg delay
106 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.95%
National rate is 1.89%
Best carrier
American
62.6% on time across 432 flights
These figures cover 719 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.
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Carrier by carrier
Which airline is most reliable on AVL 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 2 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 285 | 83.0% | 138 min | 0.35% | B+ |
| American Airlines | 432 | 62.6% | 96 min | 3.01% | D− |
Flight by flight
Flights on AVL 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 Asheville 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. GSP → DFWGreer to Dallas-Fort Worth | American Airlines | 71.9% | 74.4% | 3.31% | 5am–8am, Thu | — |
| 2. AVL → DFWAsheville to Dallas-Fort Worth | American Airlines | 60.7% | 62.6% | 3.01% | 5am–8am, Tue | — |
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 27 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am328 flights81.7%
- 8am–11am28 flights—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm217 flights65.2%
- 5pm–8pm146 flights54.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 54.9% on time, against 81.7% 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 328 flights scheduled in it.
Explore
Filter AVL 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 AVL to DFW, the best departure window is 5am–8am at 81.7% on time and the worst is 5pm–8pm at 54.9%, a wide gap of 26.8 points. All US flights leaving 5am–8am ran 89.3%.
- 5–8am81.7%
- 8–11am—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2–5pm65.2%
- 5–8pm54.9%
- 8pm–5am—
best all US flightsScale 45% to 95%. Cells under 30 flights show a dash.
Across the year
When delays peak on this route
This route's year swings by 24 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 57.9% on time, 24 points below February, the best at 81.8%. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 62 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 75.5% on time and Monday the weakest at 65.7%, a spread of 10 points.
Delay causes
Why this route gets delayed
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 22,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 22,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 17 to one. The split is drawn from 21,536 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 81.7% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.95% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.97%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here actually costs
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.
The 848 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 runs 71.1% on time across 718 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 719 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.
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What to do with this
Booking this route
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 719 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 70.9% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 698 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Common questions
AVL to DFW questions
How often is AVL to DFW delayed?
Roughly 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 29.1% of the 719 flights in this analysis, against 22.7% nationally. Delayed flights are late by close to two hours on average.
How reliable is AVL to DFW compared with the rest of the country?
70.9% of flights arrive on time here against a national 77.3%, a difference of 6 points against it. That is worth a C on this site's grading scale.
What time of day has the fewest delays on AVL to DFW?
The 5am–8am departure window is the strongest at 81.7% on time. The 5pm–8pm window is the weakest at 54.9%, 27 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 AVL to DFW?
June is the weakest month at 57.9% on time, compared with 81.8% in February. Across the year that is 24 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 AVL — the return legseparate record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Envoy Air on AVL to DFW83.0%
- American Airlines on AVL to DFW62.6%
- AVL to ATL, a related route86.3%
- ORD to DFW, a related route70.4%
- AVL to ORD, a related route73.3%
- PSA Airlines on-time record100.0%
- Envoy Air on-time record83.0%
- American Airlines on-time record62.6%
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
Direction matters. AVL to DFW and DFW to AVL 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.