Carrier route record
AADFW→GSP
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Greer
- Flights
- 726
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 62%
- 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 GSP draws a C−. About 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 726 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to GSP runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 110 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 697 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.17%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.3%
Every carrier on DFW to GSP, 1,173 flights
These figures cover 726 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.9% 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 GSP
American flew 726 of the 1,173 flights on DFW to GSP, most of the route. Its 66.3% on time is 7 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.3% to American at 66.3%. Two 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 | 275 | 85.3% | 66 min | 1.09% | A |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 172 | 83.0% | 83 min | 0.58% | B+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 726 | 66.3% | 75 min | 3.17% | 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 22 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am2 flights—
- 11am–2pm337 flights69.8%
- 2pm–5pm28 flights—
- 5pm–8pm265 flights66.7%
- 8pm–5am94 flights47.7%
Scale runs 40% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 47.7% on time, against 69.8% for the 11am–2pm 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 337 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to GSP through the year
July is the worst month at 39.0% on time, 44 points below September, the best at 82.8%. 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. October was the busiest month here, with 63 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 74.3% on time and Sunday the weakest at 53.7%, a spread of 21 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to GSP runs when it is late
The 235 late arrivals split 62 under half an hour, 83 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 90 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early105 flights15.1%
- Within 15 min357 flights51.2%
- 15–29 min late62 flights8.9%
- 30–59 min late83 flights11.9%
- 1–2 hours late49 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late41 flights5.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 697 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
44 of 261 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 18 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to GSP
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 August 2026, 9 hours 50 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2026 | 9 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 October 2025 | 9 hours 43 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 2 August 2026 | 8 hours 53 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 December 2025 | 8 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 July 2026 | 4 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 18,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 18,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 17,519 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.17%, 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
12.9% 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 862 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 74.4% on time across 726 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. 726 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 GSP
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.17% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 11am–2pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 697 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to GSP, every carrier
- American on GSP to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to GSP85.3%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to GSP83.0%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) 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.