Carrier route record
AAEWR→DFW
American Airlines · Newark to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,440
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 40%
- Carriers
- 5
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on EWR to DFW carries a cancellation problem, not just a delay problem: 4.1% of scheduled flights never operate, against 1.9% nationally. Of the ones that do fly, about four flights in five arrive on time, worth a B− overall. The punctuality figure counts only flights that actually departed, so it flatters an operation that cancels this often. That rests on 1,440 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on EWR to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
80.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,372 completed flights
Avg delay
104 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.10%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.6%
Every carrier on EWR to DFW, 3,631 flights
These figures cover 1,440 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.0% 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 EWR to DFW
American flew 1,440 of the 3,631 flights on EWR to DFW, about 40% of it. Its 80.1% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 78.6%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of five carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 87.0% to Spirit at 66.2%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic Airwaysthin sample | 25 | 87.0% | 67 min | 4.00% | A− |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,440 | 80.1% | 104 min | 4.10% | B− |
| United Airlines | 1,805 | 79.5% | 74 min | 2.66% | B |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 118 | 70.4% | 243 min | 1.69% | C |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 243 | 66.2% | 79 min | 4.94% | C− |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on EWR to DFW
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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–8am358 flights93.2%
- 8am–11am359 flights83.0%
- 11am–2pm363 flights76.3%
- 2pm–5pm72 flights75.4%
- 5pm–8pm288 flights65.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.2% of the time, against 65.9% for the evening window. That is 27 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 363 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on EWR to DFW through the year
July is the worst month at 69.2% on time, 19 points below January, the best at 88.2%. 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. March was the busiest month here, with 124 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.6% on time and Saturday the weakest at 71.3%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on EWR to DFW runs when it is late
American on EWR to DFW often beats the schedule: 672 of 1,372 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 273 late arrivals split 80 under half an hour, 69 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 124 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early672 flights49.0%
- Within 15 min427 flights31.1%
- 15–29 min late80 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late69 flights5.0%
- 1–2 hours late61 flights4.4%
- 2+ hours late63 flights4.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,372 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
71 of 266 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. In the other direction, 78 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for American on EWR to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 October 2025, 34 hours 47 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2 October 2025 | 34 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 September 2025 | 16 hours 19 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 22 August 2026 | 14 hours 55 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 March 2026 | 10 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 July 2026 | 10 hours 12 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 28,000 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 11%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 28,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. The split is drawn from 28,315 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 93.2% on time here.
Cancellations run at 4.10%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
9.0% 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 1,372 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 66.2% on time across 1,440 flights, 14 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 14 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,440 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 EWR to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.10% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you close to two hours; a cancelled flight costs you the day. Book the 5am–8am departure so there is still a schedule behind you if it goes wrong, and treat a same-day connection as optimistic. 1,372 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- EWR to DFW, every carrier
- American on DFW to EWR, the return leg
- United Airlines on EWR to DFW79.5%
- Frontier Airlines on EWR to DFW70.4%
- Spirit Airlines on EWR to DFW66.2%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) delay statistics
- 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.