Carrier route record
AADFW→SAV
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Savannah
- Flights
- 865
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 85%
- 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 SAV draws a D. Roughly 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 865 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to SAV runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 138 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 844 completed flights
Avg delay
79 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.31%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
65.9%
Every carrier on DFW to SAV, 1,023 flights
These figures cover 865 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.4% 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 SAV
American flew 865 of the 1,023 flights on DFW to SAV, most of the route. Its 63.5% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 65.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 88.5% to American at 63.5%. Two 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 | 29 | 88.5% | 20 min | 10.34% | A− |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 129 | 77.4% | 105 min | 3.88% | B− |
| American Airlines (this page) | 865 | 63.5% | 79 min | 2.31% | D |
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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 31 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am—
- 8am–11am73 flights80.8%
- 11am–2pm250 flights72.4%
- 2pm–5pm204 flights54.7%
- 5pm–8pm236 flights62.3%
- 8pm–5am102 flights49.5%
Scale runs 40% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is where this operation falls apart: 49.5% on time, against 80.8% 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 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 250 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to SAV through the year
July is the worst month at 35.0% on time, 40 points below November, the best at 75.4%. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 110 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 69.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 56.3%, a spread of 13 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to SAV runs when it is late
The 308 late arrivals split 87 under half an hour, 91 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 130 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early147 flights17.4%
- Within 15 min389 flights46.1%
- 15–29 min late87 flights10.3%
- 30–59 min late91 flights10.8%
- 1–2 hours late81 flights9.6%
- 2+ hours late49 flights5.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 844 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
60 of 339 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 29 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to SAV
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 January 2026, 13 hours 25 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | 13 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 September 2025 | 9 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 September 2025 | 9 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 October 2025 | 7 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 July 2026 | 7 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 24,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
54% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 24,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. The split is drawn from 24,326 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 34%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 8,312 of the 24,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 2.31% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.12%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
15.4% 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 925 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 76.2% on time across 865 flights, 13 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 13 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 865 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 SAV
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 865 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 63.5% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 844 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.