Carrier route record
AAAVL→DFW
American Airlines · Asheville to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 432
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 60%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on AVL to DFW draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 432 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on AVL to DFW runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 147 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
62.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 414 completed flights
Avg delay
96 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.01%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
70.9%
Every carrier on AVL to DFW, 719 flights
These figures cover 432 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.9% 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 AVL to DFW
American flew 432 of the 719 flights on AVL to DFW, most of the route. Its 62.6% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 70.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 100.0% to American at 62.6%. Two 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 2 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 285 | 83.0% | 138 min | 0.35% | B+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 432 | 62.6% | 96 min | 3.01% | D− |
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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 17 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am42 flights71.8%
- 8am–11am28 flights—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm216 flights65.1%
- 5pm–8pm146 flights54.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 54.9% on time, against 71.8% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 216 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on AVL to DFW through the year
Delays peak in March, when the on-time rate falls to 53.3%. February is the strongest month at 80.0%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 27 points. June was the busiest month here, with 60 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 69.5% on time and Sunday the weakest at 54.4%, a spread of 15 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on AVL to DFW runs when it is late
The 155 late arrivals split 50 under half an hour, 39 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 66 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early95 flights22.9%
- Within 15 min164 flights39.6%
- 15–29 min late50 flights12.1%
- 30–59 min late39 flights9.4%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late37 flights8.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 414 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
28 of 162 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. In the other direction, 21 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for American on AVL to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 January 2026, 18 hours 13 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2026 | 18 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 May 2026 | 16 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 June 2026 | 8 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 March 2026 | 6 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 March 2026 | 6 hours 30 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 61% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
61% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 30 to one. The split is drawn from 14,932 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 71.8% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.01%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
15.9% 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 63.9% on time across 433 flights, within about 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. 432 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 AVL to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.01% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 414 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.