Carrier route record
AADRO→DFW
American Airlines · Durango to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 128
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 10%
- Carriers
- 2
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on DRO to DFW draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about 2.3 hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 128 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so American on DRO to DFW runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 112 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 125 completed flights
Avg delay
136 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.56%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
80.3%
Every carrier on DRO to DFW, 1,340 flights
These figures cover 128 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on DRO to DFW
American flew 128 of the 1,340 flights on DRO to DFW, about 10% of it. Its 66.4% on time is 14 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 80.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of two carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 81.8% to American at 66.4%.
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 | 1,212 | 81.8% | 89 min | 2.89% | B |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 128 | 66.4% | 136 min | 1.56% | C |
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 128 flights.
- 5am–8am1 flights—
- 8am–11am59 flights67.8%
- 11am–2pm60 flights67.2%
- 2pm–5pm4 flights—
- 5pm–8pm4 flights—
- 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 202563 flights60.0%
- Oct–Dec 202565 flights72.3%
Scale runs 50% to 80%. 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 66.4% on time across 128 flights.
Split by quarter, American on DRO to DFW logged 63 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 65 flights in Oct–Dec 2025. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 66.4% annual figure is the one to use.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 64% of the 5,699 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 64%Carrier
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 64%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,621 of the 5,699 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,699 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 67.8% on time here.
Cancellations sit at 1.56% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.78%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 16.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 60.6% on time across 128 flights, 6 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 6 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 128 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. 128 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 66.4% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 125 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.