Carrier route record
AADFW→CID
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Cedar Rapids
- Flights
- 526
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 44%
- 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 CID draws a D−. Roughly 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 526 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to CID runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 145 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
62.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 503 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.61%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.9%
Every carrier on DFW to CID, 1,190 flights
These figures cover 526 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.1% 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 CID
American flew 526 of the 1,190 flights on DFW to CID, about 44% of it. Its 62.8% on time is 12 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.1% to American at 62.8%. 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 | 572 | 85.1% | 65 min | 1.40% | A |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 92 | 78.7% | 70 min | 2.17% | B |
| American Airlines (this page) | 526 | 62.8% | 77 min | 3.61% | 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 23 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am263 flights73.6%
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm87 flights50.6%
- 5pm–8pm48 flights54.5%
- 8pm–5am128 flights51.6%
Scale runs 40% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 73.6% of the time, against 50.6% for the afternoon window. That is 23 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 8am–11am window is the busiest, with 263 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to CID through the year
December is the weak month at 52.9% on time, against 80.0% in May. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 85 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 80.0% on time and Sunday the weakest at 51.3%, a spread of 29 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to CID runs when it is late
The 187 late arrivals split 58 under half an hour, 48 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 81 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early78 flights15.5%
- Within 15 min238 flights47.3%
- 15–29 min late58 flights11.5%
- 30–59 min late48 flights9.5%
- 1–2 hours late52 flights10.3%
- 2+ hours late29 flights5.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 503 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
24 of 192 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 19 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to CID
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 December 2025, 16 hours 16 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 27 December 2025 | 16 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 January 2026 | 8 hours 52 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 6 December 2025 | 7 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 February 2026 | 5 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 November 2025 | 4 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 9%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 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 14,465 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 73.6% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.61%, against 1.89% 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
16.1% 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 685 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 71.5% on time across 526 flights, 9 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 9 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 526 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 CID
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.61% 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. 503 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.