Carrier route record
AADFW→BWI
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Baltimore
- Flights
- 968
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 73%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on DFW to BWI sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 968 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to BWI runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 91 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 932 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.79%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
69.9%
Every carrier on DFW to BWI, 1,325 flights
These figures cover 968 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.5% 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 BWI
American flew 968 of the 1,325 flights on DFW to BWI, most of the route. Its 68.2% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 69.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 100.0% to American at 68.2%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 3 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 68 | 77.9% | 56 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 286 | 73.0% | 72 min | 2.10% | C |
| American Airlines (this page) | 968 | 68.2% | 65 min | 2.79% | C |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on DFW to BWI
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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–8am41 flights76.9%
- 8am–11am220 flights80.3%
- 11am–2pm141 flights76.6%
- 2pm–5pm209 flights62.6%
- 5pm–8pm347 flights60.0%
- 8pm–5am10 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 60.0% on time, against 80.3% 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 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 347 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to BWI through the year
July is the worst month at 54.9% on time, 24 points below October, the best at 79.2%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 119 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 74.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 60.4%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to BWI runs when it is late
The 296 late arrivals split 91 under half an hour, 107 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 98 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early202 flights21.7%
- Within 15 min434 flights46.6%
- 15–29 min late91 flights9.8%
- 30–59 min late107 flights11.5%
- 1–2 hours late65 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late33 flights3.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 932 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
74 of 338 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. 32 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to BWI
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 April 2026, 9 hours 58 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 April 2026 | 9 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 June 2026 | 8 hours 31 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 April 2026 | 5 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 July 2026 | 4 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 March 2026 | 4 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 19,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 19,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 to one. The split is drawn from 19,084 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,723 of the 19,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.79%, 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
10.5% 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 1,217 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 73.7% on time across 968 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 968 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 BWI
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 968 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 68.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 932 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to BWI, every carrier
- American on BWI to DFW, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on DFW to BWI73.0%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) 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.