Carrier route record
AABWI→DFW
American Airlines · Baltimore to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 968
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 73%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on BWI to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 968 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on BWI 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
73.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 936 completed flights
Avg delay
109 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.1%
Every carrier on BWI to DFW, 1,326 flights
These figures cover 968 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.8% 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 BWI to DFW
American flew 968 of the 1,326 flights on BWI to DFW, most of the route. Its 73.7% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 73.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 100.0% to Frontier at 68.3%. Three 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 3 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 68 | 83.6% | 70 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 968 | 73.7% | 109 min | 3.00% | C |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 287 | 68.3% | 100 min | 1.74% | C |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on BWI 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 25 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am365 flights83.5%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm103 flights78.6%
- 2pm–5pm298 flights70.0%
- 5pm–8pm202 flights59.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 59.0% on time, against 83.5% 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 365 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on BWI to DFW through the year
June is the worst month at 67.9% on time, 16 points below January, the best at 84.2%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 119 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 80.7% on time and Saturday the weakest at 64.2%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on BWI to DFW runs when it is late
American on BWI to DFW often beats the schedule: 382 of 936 completed flights, 41%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 246 late arrivals split 86 under half an hour, 59 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 101 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early382 flights40.8%
- Within 15 min308 flights32.9%
- 15–29 min late86 flights9.2%
- 30–59 min late59 flights6.3%
- 1–2 hours late47 flights5.0%
- 2+ hours late54 flights5.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 936 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
75 of 267 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. In the other direction, 54 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 BWI to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 29 July 2026, 20 hours 31 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 29 July 2026 | 20 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 March 2026 | 20 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 May 2026 | 17 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 August 2026 | 15 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 March 2026 | 15 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 46% of the 27,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Carrier
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 27,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 26,771 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 46%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 12,000 of the 27,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.00%, 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
10.8% 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 1,217 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 68.2% on time across 968 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 968 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 BWI to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.00% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two 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. 936 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- BWI to DFW, every carrier
- American on DFW to BWI, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on BWI to DFW68.3%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) 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.