Carrier route record

AADFW→AMA

American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Amarillo

Flights: 118
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 5%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.

American on DFW to AMA earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 42.1% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 35 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 118 flights, with a median arrival 24 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so American on DFW to AMA runs 35 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 355 extra late arrivals.

On time

42.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 114 completed flights

Avg delay

100 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.39%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

81.3%

Every carrier on DFW to AMA, 2,371 flights

These figures cover 118 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 36.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Carrier by carrier

American against every carrier on DFW to AMA

American flew 118 of the 2,371 flights on DFW to AMA, about 5% of it. Its 42.1% on time is 39 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 84.0% to American at 42.1%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to AMA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Envoy Air	1,970	84.0%	58 min	2.18%	B
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	283	78.7%	75 min	2.12%	B
American Airlines (this page)thin sample	118	42.1%	100 min	3.39%	F−

Departure window

When American runs best on this route

Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 118 flights.

There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's DFW to AMA record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 42.1% is the reliable figure here.

Across the year

American on DFW to AMA through the year

Jul–Sep 202534 flights42.4%
Oct–Dec 202532 flights50.0%
Jan–Mar 20263 flights—
Apr–Jun 202649 flights32.6%

Scale runs 25% to 55%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 42.1% on time across 118 flights.

American on DFW to AMA did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 50.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 32.6%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 39 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 6,581 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Carrier
50%
Late-arriving aircraft
41%
Extreme weather
5%
National Airspace System
5%

41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 6,581 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 6,581 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,283 of the 6,581 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 3.39%, against 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 36.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.

At 312 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8pm–5am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 84.2% on time across 118 flights, 42 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 42 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 118 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 DFW to AMA

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.39% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8pm–5am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 114 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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