Carrier route record
AACID→DFW
American Airlines · Cedar Rapids to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 526
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 44%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on CID to DFW 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 about 2.8 hours behind schedule. That rests on 526 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on CID to DFW runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 58 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 506 completed flights
Avg delay
170 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.61%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.2%
Every carrier on CID to DFW, 1,190 flights
These figures cover 526 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.0% 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 CID to DFW
American flew 526 of the 1,190 flights on CID to DFW, about 44% of it. Its 71.5% on time is 8 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.8% to American at 71.5%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 573 | 85.8% | 83 min | 1.40% | A |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 91 | 81.6% | 104 min | 3.30% | B− |
| American Airlines (this page) | 526 | 71.5% | 170 min | 3.61% | C− |
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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 34 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am178 flights84.8%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm263 flights69.0%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm85 flights51.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 51.2% on time, against 84.8% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 263 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on CID to DFW through the year
Delays peak in November, when the on-time rate falls to 57.6%. January is the strongest month at 83.3%. Moving a flexible trip across that boundary buys 26 points. March was the busiest month here, with 85 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 84.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 64.0%, a spread of 20 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on CID to DFW runs when it is late
American on CID to DFW often beats the schedule: 154 of 506 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When American on CID to DFW is late it tends to be very late: 76 of its 144 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 39 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early154 flights30.4%
- Within 15 min208 flights41.1%
- 15–29 min late31 flights6.1%
- 30–59 min late37 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late37 flights7.3%
- 2+ hours late39 flights7.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 506 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
33 of 168 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. Only 9 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on CID to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 March 2026, 43 hours 21 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 March 2026 | 43 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 12 May 2026 | 29 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 December 2025 | 28 hours 28 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 19 January 2026 | 25 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 December 2025 | 25 hours 23 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 43% of the 25,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Carrier
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 21%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 21% 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 3.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 24,509 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 11,000 of the 25,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.61%, against 1.89% 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
15.0% 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 685 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 62.8% on time across 526 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 526 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 CID to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.61% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.8 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. 506 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.