Carrier route record
AADFW→CMH
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Columbus
- Flights
- 1,414
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 82%
- 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 CMH sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,414 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to CMH runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 69 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,377 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.33%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
71.6%
Every carrier on DFW to CMH, 1,727 flights
These figures cover 1,414 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.2% 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 CMH
American flew 1,414 of the 1,727 flights on DFW to CMH, most of the route. Its 70.4% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 71.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Delta at 100.0% to PSA at 50.0%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Linesthin sample | 1 | 100.0% | — | 0.00% | A+ |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 310 | 76.7% | 59 min | 0.32% | B+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,414 | 70.4% | 68 min | 2.33% | C |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 2 | 50.0% | 22 min | 0.00% | F+ |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on DFW to CMH
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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 28 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am321 flights84.9%
- 8am–11am165 flights74.5%
- 11am–2pm238 flights75.2%
- 2pm–5pm335 flights63.2%
- 5pm–8pm150 flights61.6%
- 8pm–5am205 flights56.9%
Scale runs 50% to 90%.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 56.9% on time, against 84.9% for the 5am–8am 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 335 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to CMH through the year
June is the worst month at 58.8% on time, 24 points below September, the best at 83.2%. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 145 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 75.8% on time and Sunday the weakest at 62.9%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to CMH runs when it is late
The 407 late arrivals split 133 under half an hour, 133 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 141 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early275 flights20.0%
- Within 15 min695 flights50.5%
- 15–29 min late133 flights9.7%
- 30–59 min late133 flights9.7%
- 1–2 hours late83 flights6.0%
- 2+ hours late58 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,377 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
98 of 465 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 40 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to CMH
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 May 2026, 13 hours 45 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in May 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2026 | 13 hours 45 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 19 May 2026 | 10 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 9 hours 10 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 16 July 2026 | 5 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 May 2026 | 5 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 28,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 30%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 28,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 27,780 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 84.9% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 2.33% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
10.2% 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 926 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 79.6% on time across 1,412 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,414 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 CMH
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. September runs 83.2% on time and June 58.8%, a swing of 24 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of June before you think about anything else. 1,377 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to CMH, every carrier
- American on CMH to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to CMH76.7%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- John Glenn Columbus International (CMH) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.