Carrier route record
AADFW→COS
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Colorado Springs
- Flights
- 1,037
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 54%
- 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 COS 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 1,037 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 COS runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 90 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,009 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.41%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
72.5%
Every carrier on DFW to COS, 1,934 flights
These figures cover 1,037 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.8% 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 COS
American flew 1,037 of the 1,934 flights on DFW to COS, most of the route. Its 68.3% on time is 4 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 72.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 89.3% to American at 68.3%. 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 Airthin sample | 200 | 89.3% | 38 min | 1.50% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines | 697 | 73.9% | 74 min | 2.44% | C |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,037 | 68.3% | 67 min | 2.41% | C |
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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 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am243 flights76.8%
- 11am–2pm129 flights68.5%
- 2pm–5pm354 flights67.8%
- 5pm–8pm16 flights—
- 8pm–5am295 flights61.2%
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 61.2% on time, against 76.8% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 354 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to COS through the year
June is the worst month at 47.7% on time, 29 points below September, the best at 77.0%. 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. December was the busiest month here, with 97 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 73.4% on time and Sunday the weakest at 56.2%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to COS runs when it is late
The 320 late arrivals split 112 under half an hour, 109 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 99 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early130 flights12.9%
- Within 15 min559 flights55.4%
- 15–29 min late112 flights11.1%
- 30–59 min late109 flights10.8%
- 1–2 hours late57 flights5.6%
- 2+ hours late42 flights4.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,009 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
63 of 360 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 23 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to COS
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 November 2025, 13 hours 16 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 20 November 2025 | 13 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 May 2026 | 8 hours 8 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 5 September 2025 | 7 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 June 2026 | 7 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 January 2026 | 5 hours 17 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 21,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 41%Carrier
- 8%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 21,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 21,416 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 41%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 8,688 of the 21,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.41% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
9.8% 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 592 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 76.7% on time across 1,037 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 1,037 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 COS
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,037 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 68.3% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 1,009 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to COS, every carrier
- American on COS to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to COS89.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to COS73.9%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.