Carrier route record
AADFW→OMA
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Omaha
- Flights
- 1,346
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 86%
- 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 OMA draws a D. 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 1,346 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to OMA runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 126 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,307 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.67%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
67.5%
Every carrier on DFW to OMA, 1,558 flights
These figures cover 1,346 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.8% 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 OMA
American flew 1,346 of the 1,558 flights on DFW to OMA, most of the route. Its 64.7% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 67.5%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 86.7% to SkyWest at 60.0%. Three 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 183 | 86.7% | 49 min | 1.64% | A |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 24 | 81.8% | 80 min | 8.33% | B− |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,346 | 64.7% | 71 min | 2.67% | D |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 60.0% | 135 min | 0.00% | D+ |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on DFW to OMA
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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 27 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am251 flights77.0%
- 8am–11am133 flights74.4%
- 11am–2pm253 flights76.0%
- 2pm–5pm253 flights59.4%
- 5pm–8pm124 flights50.0%
- 8pm–5am332 flights51.9%
Scale runs 40% to 80%.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 50.0% on time, against 77.0% 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 8pm–5am window is the busiest, with 332 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to OMA through the year
July is the worst month at 54.7% on time, 18 points below February, the best at 72.8%. 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. May was the busiest month here, with 140 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 72.9% on time and Saturday the weakest at 57.2%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to OMA runs when it is late
The 462 late arrivals split 170 under half an hour, 125 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 167 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early160 flights12.2%
- Within 15 min685 flights52.4%
- 15–29 min late170 flights13.0%
- 30–59 min late125 flights9.6%
- 1–2 hours late92 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late75 flights5.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,307 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
68 of 481 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. 49 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to OMA
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 June 2026, 10 hours 23 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 8 June 2026 | 10 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 30 November 2025 | 8 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 August 2026 | 7 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 June 2026 | 6 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 November 2025 | 6 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 33,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
53% 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 9 to one. The split is drawn from 32,896 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 77.0% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.67%, 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
12.8% 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 583 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 76.5% on time across 1,345 flights, 12 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 12 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,346 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 OMA
Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. February runs 72.8% on time and July 54.7%, a swing of 18 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of July before you think about anything else. 1,307 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to OMA, every carrier
- American on OMA to DFW, the return leg
- Envoy Air on DFW to OMA86.7%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) 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.