Carrier route record
AADFW→HSV
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Huntsville
- Flights
- 214
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 10%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 51.5% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 26 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 214 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,022 at 82.8% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so American on DFW to HSV runs 26 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 261 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
51.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 204 completed flights
Avg delay
97 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.67%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
76.3%
Every carrier on DFW to HSV, 2,056 flights
These figures cover 214 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 26.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on DFW to HSV
American flew 214 of the 2,056 flights on DFW to HSV, about 10% of it. Its 51.5% on time is 25 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 82.8% to American at 51.5%. 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 82.8% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 73.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 722 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,022 | 82.8% | 64 min | 2.05% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 98 | 80.4% | 67 min | 1.02% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 722 | 73.5% | 95 min | 4.43% | C− |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 214 | 51.5% | 97 min | 4.67% | F− |
PSA Airlines cancels 4.4% 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.
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 214 flights.
- 5am–8am2 flights—
- 8am–11am3 flights—
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm1 flights—
- 5pm–8pm33 flights51.5%
- 8pm–5am174 flights51.2%
Scale runs 45% to 55%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is the strongest at 51.5% on time. The full set of windows spans half a point.
Across the year
American on DFW to HSV through the year
- Jul–Sep 202594 flights53.3%
- Oct–Dec 202535 flights54.3%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights48.1%
Scale runs 40% to 60%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 51.5% on time across 214 flights.
Quarter by quarter American on DFW to HSV held fairly steady: 53.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 54.3% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 48.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 9,592 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 64%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 4%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
64% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 9,592 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 24 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 9,592 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 4.67%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 26.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 73.3% on time across 213 flights, 22 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 22 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 214 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 4.67% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 204 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 HSV82.8%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to HSV73.5%
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.