Carrier route record
AADFW→ABQ
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Albuquerque
- Flights
- 1,717
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 76%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on DFW to ABQ draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 1,717 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to ABQ runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 123 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,667 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.85%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.0%
Every carrier on DFW to ABQ, 2,266 flights
These figures cover 1,717 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.2% 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 DFW to ABQ
American flew 1,717 of the 2,266 flights on DFW to ABQ, most of the route. Its 65.0% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 69.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.0% to American at 65.0%. 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 | 498 | 82.0% | 51 min | 1.41% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 51 | 78.0% | 47 min | 1.96% | B |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,717 | 65.0% | 70 min | 2.85% | C |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on DFW to ABQ
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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 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am406 flights78.8%
- 11am–2pm119 flights70.6%
- 2pm–5pm353 flights62.4%
- 5pm–8pm332 flights58.4%
- 8pm–5am507 flights58.5%
Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 58.4% on time, against 78.8% for the 8am–11am 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 507 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to ABQ through the year
June is the worst month at 55.0% on time, 21 points below February, the best at 76.3%. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 177 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 71.6% on time and Monday the weakest at 59.1%, a spread of 12 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to ABQ runs when it is late
The 584 late arrivals split 172 under half an hour, 209 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 203 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early234 flights14.0%
- Within 15 min849 flights50.9%
- 15–29 min late172 flights10.3%
- 30–59 min late209 flights12.5%
- 1–2 hours late112 flights6.7%
- 2+ hours late91 flights5.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,667 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
118 of 645 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 57 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to ABQ
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 July 2026, 14 hours 3 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2026 | 14 hours 3 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 November 2025 | 12 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 December 2025 | 11 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 June 2026 | 6 hours 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 September 2025 | 6 hours 14 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 41,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 41,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 41,076 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 14,000 of the 41,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.85%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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
12.2% 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 569 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 81.2% on time across 1,718 flights, 16 points above 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 16 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,717 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 DFW to ABQ
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.85% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,667 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to ABQ, every carrier
- American on ABQ to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to ABQ82.0%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ) 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.