Carrier route record
AADFW→VPS
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Valparaiso
- Flights
- 1,020
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 77%
- 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 VPS 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 1,020 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DFW to VPS runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 152 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
62.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 991 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.65%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
67.8%
Every carrier on DFW to VPS, 1,331 flights
These figures cover 1,020 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.8% 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 VPS
American flew 1,020 of the 1,331 flights on DFW to VPS, most of the route. Its 62.1% on time is 6 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 67.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 87.3% to American at 62.1%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 159 | 87.3% | 65 min | 5.03% | A− |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 152 | 86.0% | 53 min | 0.66% | A+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,020 | 62.1% | 76 min | 2.65% | D |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on DFW to VPS
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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 29 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am11 flights—
- 8am–11am166 flights78.5%
- 11am–2pm362 flights64.2%
- 2pm–5pm162 flights49.4%
- 5pm–8pm117 flights60.7%
- 8pm–5am202 flights55.7%
Scale runs 40% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the morning departure. Flights leaving between 8am–11am arrive on time 78.5% of the time, against 49.4% for the afternoon window. That is 29 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 11am–2pm window is the busiest, with 362 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on DFW to VPS through the year
June is the worst month at 47.2% on time, 34 points below April, the best at 81.0%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 132 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 72.0% on time and Saturday the weakest at 54.7%, a spread of 17 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DFW to VPS runs when it is late
The 376 late arrivals split 89 under half an hour, 121 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 166 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early160 flights16.1%
- Within 15 min455 flights45.9%
- 15–29 min late89 flights9.0%
- 30–59 min late121 flights12.2%
- 1–2 hours late100 flights10.1%
- 2+ hours late66 flights6.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 991 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
60 of 400 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. 36 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DFW to VPS
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 July 2026, 11 hours 55 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 July 2026 | 11 hours 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 17 January 2026 | 11 hours 5 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 26 September 2025 | 8 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 January 2026 | 8 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 10 May 2026 | 6 hours 17 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 29,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 29,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 to one. The split is drawn from 28,739 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 78.5% on time here.
Cancellations run at 2.65%, 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
16.8% 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 641 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 70.6% on time across 1,020 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.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 1,020 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 VPS
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,020 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 62.1% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 991 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to VPS, every carrier
- American on VPS to DFW, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on DFW to VPS87.3%
- Envoy Air on DFW to VPS86.0%
- 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.