Carrier route record
AADFW→EWR
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Newark
- Flights
- 1,440
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 40%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on DFW to EWR carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.0% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about two flights in three arrive on time, worth a C− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,440 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to EWR runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 111 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,367 completed flights
Avg delay
78 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.03%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
72.9%
Every carrier on DFW to EWR, 3,633 flights
These figures cover 1,440 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.2% 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 EWR
American flew 1,440 of the 3,633 flights on DFW to EWR, about 40% of it. Its 66.2% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 72.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number four of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 84.3% to Spirit at 66.1%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 118 | 84.3% | 54 min | 0.85% | B+ |
| United Airlines | 1,805 | 78.3% | 88 min | 2.83% | B |
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 25 | 78.3% | 282 min | 4.00% | B− |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,440 | 66.2% | 78 min | 4.03% | C− |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 245 | 66.1% | 70 min | 4.90% | 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 32 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am353 flights83.8%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm365 flights69.9%
- 2pm–5pm362 flights51.6%
- 5pm–8pm323 flights58.1%
- 8pm–5am37 flights69.7%
Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 83.8% of the time, against 51.6% for the afternoon window. That is 32 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to EWR through the year
July is the worst month at 53.6% on time, 23 points below May, the best at 76.5%. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 73.7% on time and Sunday the weakest at 58.0%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to EWR runs when it is late
The 462 late arrivals split 131 under half an hour, 137 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 194 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early310 flights22.7%
- Within 15 min595 flights43.5%
- 15–29 min late131 flights9.6%
- 30–59 min late137 flights10.0%
- 1–2 hours late110 flights8.0%
- 2+ hours late84 flights6.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,367 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
79 of 474 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 67 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to EWR
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 March 2026, 17 hours 23 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 20 March 2026 | 17 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 April 2026 | 14 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 November 2025 | 9 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 March 2026 | 6 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 February 2026 | 6 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 36,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 36,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 36,019 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 83.8% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.03%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
14.2% 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 1,372 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 80.1% on time across 1,440 flights, 14 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 14 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,440 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 EWR
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.03% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,367 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to EWR, every carrier
- American on EWR to DFW, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on DFW to EWR84.3%
- United Airlines on DFW to EWR78.3%
- Spirit Airlines on DFW to EWR66.1%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 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.