Carrier route record
AADFW→DRO
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Durango
- Flights
- 174
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on DFW to DRO draws a D+. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 174 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to DRO runs 18 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 175 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
59.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 174 completed flights
Avg delay
92 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.7%
Every carrier on DFW to DRO, 1,351 flights
These figures cover 174 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.7% 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 DRO
American flew 174 of the 1,351 flights on DFW to DRO, about 13% of it. Its 59.8% on time is 17 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 79.3% to American at 59.8%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,177 | 79.3% | 71 min | 2.38% | B |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 174 | 59.8% | 92 min | 0.00% | 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 16 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am60 flights70.0%
- 11am–2pm27 flights—
- 2pm–5pm1 flights—
- 5pm–8pm63 flights54.0%
- 8pm–5am23 flights—
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 54.0% on time, against 70.0% 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 63 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to DRO through the year
- Jul–Sep 202556 flights57.1%
- Oct–Dec 202564 flights64.1%
- Jul–Sep 202654 flights57.4%
Scale runs 50% to 70%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 59.8% on time across 174 flights.
Quarter by quarter American on DFW to DRO held fairly steady: 57.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 64.1% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 57.4% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to DRO runs when it is late
The 70 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 21 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 29 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early22 flights12.6%
- Within 15 min82 flights47.1%
- 15–29 min late20 flights11.5%
- 30–59 min late21 flights12.1%
- 1–2 hours late15 flights8.6%
- 2+ hours late14 flights8.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 174 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 71 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 8 made it up before arrival. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to DRO
The latest arrival of the period was on 17 August 2026, 11 hours 56 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2026 | 11 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 October 2025 | 11 hours 11 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 September 2025 | 5 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 September 2025 | 5 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 August 2026 | 4 hours 8 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 6,439 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 44%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,439 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 46 to one. The split is drawn from 6,439 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 44%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,864 of the 6,439 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
16.7% 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 674 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 70.8% on time across 173 flights, 11 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 11 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 174 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 DRO
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 174 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 59.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 174 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to DRO, every carrier
- American on DRO to DFW, the return leg
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to DRO79.3%
- 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.