Carrier route record
AACMH→DFW
American Airlines · Columbus to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,412
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 82%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on CMH to DFW lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 1,412 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on CMH 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
79.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,367 completed flights
Avg delay
112 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.48%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.0%
Every carrier on CMH to DFW, 1,727 flights
These figures cover 1,412 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.9% 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 CMH to DFW
American flew 1,412 of the 1,727 flights on CMH to DFW, most of the route. Its 79.6% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 81.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 100.0% to American at 79.6%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 3 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| Delta Air Linesthin sample | 1 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 311 | 86.7% | 70 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,412 | 79.6% | 112 min | 2.48% | B |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on CMH 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 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am356 flights86.1%
- 8am–11am123 flights86.7%
- 11am–2pm359 flights81.1%
- 2pm–5pm310 flights76.5%
- 5pm–8pm100 flights70.2%
- 8pm–5am164 flights67.9%
Scale runs 60% to 90%.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 86.7% of the time, against 67.9% for the overnight window. That is 19 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 359 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on CMH to DFW through the year
December is the weak month at 68.6% on time, against 87.6% in February. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. April was the busiest month here, with 145 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 85.5% on time and Monday the weakest at 71.6%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on CMH to DFW runs when it is late
American on CMH to DFW often beats the schedule: 576 of 1,367 completed flights, 42%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 279 late arrivals split 76 under half an hour, 81 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 122 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early576 flights42.1%
- Within 15 min512 flights37.5%
- 15–29 min late76 flights5.6%
- 30–59 min late81 flights5.9%
- 1–2 hours late55 flights4.0%
- 2+ hours late67 flights4.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,367 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
78 of 316 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 41 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on CMH to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 April 2026, 32 hours 21 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 13 April 2026 | 32 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 December 2025 | 28 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 September 2025 | 18 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 June 2026 | 17 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 March 2026 | 10 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 45% of the 31,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Carrier
- 40%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 31,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 16 to one. The split is drawn from 31,251 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 14,000 of the 31,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.48% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.71%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
8.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 926 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 70.4% on time across 1,414 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,412 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking American on CMH to DFW
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 87.6% on time and December 68.6%, a swing of 19 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 1,367 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- CMH to DFW, every carrier
- American on DFW to CMH, the return leg
- Envoy Air on CMH to DFW86.7%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- John Glenn Columbus International (CMH) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.