Carrier route record

AADFW→ICT

American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Wichita

Flights: 404
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 16%
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 ICT 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 404 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,237 at 80.9% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so American on DFW to ICT runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 192 extra late arrivals.

On time

58.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 387 completed flights

Avg delay

93 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.96%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

75.0%

Every carrier on DFW to ICT, 2,466 flights

These figures cover 404 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 19.4% 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 ICT

American flew 404 of the 2,466 flights on DFW to ICT, about 16% of it. Its 58.4% on time is 17 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 75.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 86.4% to American at 58.4%. 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 80.9% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 73.5%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 781 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on DFW to ICT
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	44	86.4%	66 min	0.00%	A+
Envoy Air	1,237	80.9%	54 min	2.91%	B
PSA Airlines	781	73.5%	83 min	3.97%	C−
American Airlines (this page)	404	58.4%	93 min	3.96%	D−

PSA Airlines cancels 4.0% 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 matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 11 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am—
8am–11am50 flights66.0%
11am–2pm1 flights—
2pm–5pm160 flights59.7%
5pm–8pm29 flights—
8pm–5am164 flights54.6%

Scale runs 45% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 54.6% on time, against 66.0% 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 164 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

American on DFW to ICT through the year

Jul–Sep 202539 flights38.9%
Oct–Dec 2025142 flights54.3%
Jan–Mar 202684 flights62.5%
Apr–Jun 2026139 flights65.6%

Scale runs 30% to 70%. 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 58.4% on time across 404 flights.

American on DFW to ICT did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 65.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 38.9%, a swing of 27 points on roughly 101 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.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 73.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 49.1%. 24 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 15,000 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
50%
Carrier
37%
Extreme weather
7%
National Airspace System
6%
Security
0%

50% 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 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 15,039 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 5,501 of the 15,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 3.96%, against 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 19.4% 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.

At 328 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 8am–11am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 66.7% on time across 404 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. 404 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 ICT

Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.96% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 8am–11am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 387 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

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.

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