Carrier route record
AADFW→HSV
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Huntsville
- Flights
- 187
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 9%
- 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 HSV earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 44.8% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 33 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average close to two hours. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 187 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,083 at 83.2% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to HSV runs 33 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 325 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
44.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 181 completed flights
Avg delay
108 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.21%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.5%
Every carrier on DFW to HSV, 2,080 flights
These figures cover 187 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 32.0% 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 HSV
American flew 187 of the 2,080 flights on DFW to HSV, about 9% of it. Its 44.8% on time is 32 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.9% to American at 44.8%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 83.2% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 73.6%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 738 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 72 | 85.9% | 76 min | 1.39% | A |
| Envoy Air | 1,083 | 83.2% | 60 min | 1.75% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 738 | 73.6% | 93 min | 4.47% | C− |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 187 | 44.8% | 108 min | 3.21% | F− |
PSA Airlines cancels 4.5% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 187 flights.
- 5am–8am2 flights—
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm2 flights—
- 5pm–8pm34 flights50.0%
- 8pm–5am148 flights43.7%
Scale runs 35% to 55%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 50.0% on time. The full set of windows spans 6 points.
Across the year
American on DFW to HSV through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights43.3%
- Oct–Dec 202535 flights54.3%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights48.1%
- Jul–Sep 202637 flights29.7%
Scale runs 20% to 60%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 44.8% on time across 187 flights.
American on DFW to HSV did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 54.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 29.7%, a swing of 25 points on roughly 47 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to HSV runs when it is late
When American on DFW to HSV is late it tends to be very late: 58 of its 100 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 35 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early7 flights3.9%
- Within 15 min74 flights40.9%
- 15–29 min late18 flights9.9%
- 30–59 min late24 flights13.3%
- 1–2 hours late23 flights12.7%
- 2+ hours late35 flights19.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 181 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 103 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 9 made it up before arrival. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to HSV
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 June 2026, 9 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2026 | 9 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 10 July 2026 | 9 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 June 2026 | 8 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 August 2026 | 4 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 July 2026 | 4 hours | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 67% of the 11,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 67%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 4%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
67% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 35 to one. The split is drawn from 10,787 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.21%, 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
32.0% 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 603 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 76.8% on time across 188 flights, 32 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 32 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 187 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 HSV
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.21% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5pm–8pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 181 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to HSV, every carrier
- American on HSV to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to HSV83.2%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to HSV73.6%
- 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.