Carrier route record
AADFW→LBB
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Lubbock
- Flights
- 288
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 11%
- 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 LBB draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 288 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,570 at 85.3% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to LBB runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 121 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
65.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 276 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.17%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.9%
Every carrier on DFW to LBB, 2,617 flights
These figures cover 288 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.9% 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 LBB
American flew 288 of the 2,617 flights on DFW to LBB, about 11% of it. Its 65.2% on time is 16 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 85.3% to American at 65.2%. 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 85.3% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 78.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 402 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,570 | 85.3% | 63 min | 1.08% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines | 402 | 78.8% | 99 min | 3.73% | B− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 357 | 75.8% | 89 min | 6.16% | B− |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 288 | 65.2% | 79 min | 4.17% | C− |
SkyWest Airlines cancels 3.7% 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 12 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am1 flights—
- 8am–11am1 flights—
- 11am–2pm2 flights—
- 2pm–5pm81 flights73.1%
- 5pm–8pm27 flights—
- 8pm–5am176 flights60.7%
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 60.7% on time, against 73.1% for the 2pm–5pm 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 176 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to LBB through the year
- Jul–Sep 202556 flights66.0%
- Oct–Dec 2025136 flights65.2%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights66.7%
- Apr–Jun 20267 flights—
Scale runs 55% 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 65.2% on time across 288 flights.
Quarter by quarter American on DFW to LBB held fairly steady: 66.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 65.2% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 66.7% in Jan–Mar 2026. A spread of 2 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 78.4% on time and Monday the weakest at 55.0%, a spread of 23 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to LBB runs when it is late
The 96 late arrivals split 29 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 41 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early35 flights12.7%
- Within 15 min145 flights52.5%
- 15–29 min late29 flights10.5%
- 30–59 min late26 flights9.4%
- 1–2 hours late23 flights8.3%
- 2+ hours late18 flights6.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 276 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 99 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 10 made it up before arrival. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to LBB
The latest arrival of the period was on 18 November 2025, 8 hours 39 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 18 November 2025 | 8 hours 39 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 December 2025 | 5 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 September 2025 | 4 hours 40 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 20 March 2026 | 4 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 October 2025 | 3 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 7,536 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,536 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 15 to one. The split is drawn from 7,536 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,665 of the 7,536 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 4.17%, against 1.89% 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
14.9% 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 282 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 2pm–5pm window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 87.0% on time across 289 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. 288 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 LBB
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.17% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you a little over an hour; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 2pm–5pm departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 276 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to LBB, every carrier
- American on LBB to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to LBB85.3%
- SkyWest Airlines on DFW to LBB78.8%
- PSA Airlines on DFW to LBB75.8%
- 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.