Carrier route record
AADFW→AVL
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Asheville
- Flights
- 433
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 60%
- 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 AVL draws a D. 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 433 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to AVL runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 134 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 418 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.1%
Every carrier on DFW to AVL, 718 flights
These figures cover 433 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.6% 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 AVL
American flew 433 of the 718 flights on DFW to AVL, most of the route. Its 63.9% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 71.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 100.0% to American at 63.9%. Two 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 | 2 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 283 | 81.8% | 67 min | 0.35% | B+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 433 | 63.9% | 82 min | 3.00% | D |
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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 27 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm362 flights66.0%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm29 flights—
- 8pm–5am42 flights39.5%
Scale runs 30% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 39.5% on time, against 66.0% for the 11am–2pm 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 362 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to AVL through the year
June is the worst month at 50.9% on time, 26 points below February, the best at 76.9%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 60 flights.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 69.5% on time and Friday the weakest at 58.1%, a spread of 11 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to AVL runs when it is late
The 151 late arrivals split 41 under half an hour, 45 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 65 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early73 flights17.5%
- Within 15 min194 flights46.4%
- 15–29 min late41 flights9.8%
- 30–59 min late45 flights10.8%
- 1–2 hours late34 flights8.1%
- 2+ hours late31 flights7.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 418 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
28 of 163 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to AVL
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 June 2026, 10 hours 24 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 June 2026 | 10 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 March 2026 | 6 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 June 2026 | 6 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 May 2026 | 5 hours 25 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 2 December 2025 | 5 hours 23 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 12,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 10 to one. The split is drawn from 12,374 reported delay minutes.
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
15.6% 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 848 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 runs 62.6% on time across 432 flights, within about a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 433 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 AVL
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.00% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 418 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.