Carrier route record
AADRO→DFW
American Airlines · Durango to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 173
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 13%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on DRO to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C+. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 173 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on DRO to DFW runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 65 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 171 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.58%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
81.3%
Every carrier on DRO to DFW, 1,351 flights
These figures cover 173 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.3% 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 DRO to DFW
American flew 173 of the 1,351 flights on DRO to DFW, about 13% of it. Its 70.8% on time is 11 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 81.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 82.9% to American at 70.8%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlines | 1,178 | 82.9% | 94 min | 2.55% | B |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 173 | 70.8% | 82 min | 0.58% | C+ |
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Departure window
When American runs best on this route
Departure time is the single lever a traveller controls, and it moves the odds more than most people expect. Each bar below is the on-time rate for flights scheduled to leave inside that window, across 173 flights.
- 5am–8am27 flights—
- 8am–11am59 flights67.8%
- 11am–2pm87 flights67.1%
- 2pm–5pm—
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 60% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8am–11am window is the strongest at 67.8% on time. The full set of windows spans half a point.
Across the year
American on DRO to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202555 flights60.4%
- Oct–Dec 202565 flights72.3%
- Jul–Sep 202653 flights79.2%
Scale runs 50% to 85%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 70.8% on time across 173 flights.
American on DRO to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 79.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 60.4%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 58 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on DRO to DFW runs when it is late
The 50 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early40 flights23.4%
- Within 15 min81 flights47.4%
- 15–29 min late11 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late18 flights10.5%
- 1–2 hours late12 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late9 flights5.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 171 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
19 of 66 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on DRO to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 9 October 2025, 9 hours 20 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 9 October 2025 | 9 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 September 2025 | 5 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 September 2025 | 4 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 August 2026 | 3 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 August 2026 | 2 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 4,111 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 42%Carrier
- 3%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
51% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,111 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 17 to one. The split is drawn from 4,111 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,732 of the 4,111 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations are rare at 0.58%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
12.3% 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 674 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 59.8% on time across 174 flights, 11 points below 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 11 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 173 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 DRO to DFW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 173 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 70.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 171 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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Where to go next
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.