Carrier route record
AADFW→JFK
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to New York
- Flights
- 1,466
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 75%
- 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 JFK sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 1,466 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to JFK runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 79 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,413 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.66%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
74.6%
Every carrier on DFW to JFK, 1,948 flights
These figures cover 1,466 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.5% 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 JFK
American flew 1,466 of the 1,948 flights on DFW to JFK, most of the route. Its 69.4% on time is 5 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 74.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 93.5% to American at 69.4%. One 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 109 | 93.5% | 43 min | 0.92% | A+ |
| Delta Air Lines | 373 | 89.9% | 94 min | 6.17% | A− |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,466 | 69.4% | 77 min | 2.66% | C |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on DFW to JFK
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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 26 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am257 flights82.1%
- 8am–11am348 flights76.6%
- 11am–2pm483 flights66.3%
- 2pm–5pm209 flights58.3%
- 5pm–8pm169 flights56.1%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 56.1% on time, against 82.1% for the 5am–8am 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 483 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to JFK through the year
July is the worst month at 48.6% on time, 33 points below November, the best at 81.9%. 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. July was the busiest month here, with 155 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 78.6% on time and Monday the weakest at 62.4%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to JFK runs when it is late
American on DFW to JFK often beats the schedule: 368 of 1,413 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 433 late arrivals split 129 under half an hour, 141 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 163 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early368 flights26.0%
- Within 15 min612 flights43.3%
- 15–29 min late129 flights9.1%
- 30–59 min late141 flights10.0%
- 1–2 hours late84 flights5.9%
- 2+ hours late79 flights5.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,413 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
99 of 460 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. In the other direction, 72 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at JFK.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to JFK
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 January 2026, 15 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in July 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2026 | 15 hours 18 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 July 2026 | 12 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 July 2026 | 11 hours 36 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 February 2026 | 9 hours 14 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 18 July 2026 | 8 hours 2 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 33,000 reported delay minutes.
- 41%Late-arriving aircraft
- 25%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
41% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 33,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 33,239 reported delay minutes.
The practical consequence: the 5am–8am departure is the one that starts clean. Its aircraft has no earlier leg to be late from, which is exactly why that window shows 82.1% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.66%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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
11.5% 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 1,391 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 77.2% on time across 1,471 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.
The sample behind these figures is 1,466 flights, enough that the headline rate is stable to within roughly a point. The hour-block and month splits divide that further, so read the thinner bars with more caution than the headline.
What to do with this
Booking American on DFW to JFK
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. November runs 81.9% on time and July 48.6%, a swing of 33 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,413 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to JFK, every carrier
- American on JFK to DFW, the return leg
- Frontier Airlines on DFW to JFK93.5%
- Delta Air Lines on DFW to JFK89.9%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) 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.