Carrier route record
AADFW→ICT
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Wichita
- Flights
- 400
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 17%
- 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 ICT earns a D−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 57.7% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 20 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 400 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,388 at 82.5% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to ICT runs 20 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 196 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
57.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 385 completed flights
Avg delay
98 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.50%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.5%
Every carrier on DFW to ICT, 2,419 flights
These figures cover 400 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 21.0% 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 ICT
American flew 400 of the 2,419 flights on DFW to ICT, about 17% of it. Its 57.7% on time is 19 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 84.1% to American at 57.7%. 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 82.5% of the time; PSA Airlines manages 73.7%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 543 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 88 | 84.1% | 69 min | 0.00% | B+ |
| Envoy Air | 1,388 | 82.5% | 53 min | 2.31% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 543 | 73.7% | 72 min | 4.42% | C− |
| American Airlines (this page) | 400 | 57.7% | 98 min | 3.50% | D− |
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.
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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 13 points, against 9 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am50 flights66.0%
- 11am–2pm1 flights—
- 2pm–5pm156 flights60.0%
- 5pm–8pm30 flights—
- 8pm–5am163 flights52.9%
Scale runs 45% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 52.9% 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 163 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to ICT through the year
- Oct–Dec 2025142 flights54.3%
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights62.5%
- Apr–Jun 2026139 flights65.6%
- Jul–Sep 202635 flights29.4%
Scale runs 20% to 70%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 57.7% on time across 400 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 2026 at 29.4%, a swing of 36 points on roughly 100 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 71.4% on time and Monday the weakest at 47.4%, a spread of 24 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to ICT runs when it is late
The 163 late arrivals split 34 under half an hour, 48 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 81 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early27 flights7.0%
- Within 15 min195 flights50.6%
- 15–29 min late34 flights8.8%
- 30–59 min late48 flights12.5%
- 1–2 hours late44 flights11.4%
- 2+ hours late37 flights9.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 385 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 174 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 19 made it up before arrival. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to ICT
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 June 2026, 14 hours 32 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 June 2026 | 14 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 April 2026 | 12 hours 51 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 23 July 2026 | 11 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 July 2026 | 10 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 July 2026 | 9 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 16,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 6%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 16,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 16,020 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 8am–11am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 66.0% on time here.
Cancellations run at 3.50%, 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
21.0% 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.
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 68.0% on time across 399 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 400 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 3.50% 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. 385 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to ICT, every carrier
- American on ICT to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to ICT82.5%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to ICT73.7%
- 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.