Carrier route record
AAHSV→DFW
American Airlines · Huntsville to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 188
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 9%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on HSV to DFW lands a B−, level with the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 188 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,081 at 80.2% on time.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on HSV 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
76.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 181 completed flights
Avg delay
116 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.72%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
78.8%
Every carrier on HSV to DFW, 2,079 flights
These figures cover 188 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on HSV to DFW
American flew 188 of the 2,079 flights on HSV to DFW, about 9% of it. Its 76.8% on time is 2 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.8%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 81.7% to American at 76.8%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 3 points separate the best from the worst. At that spread, schedule and price are better tie-breakers than reliability. Sample sizes are shown so you can see which rows are worth weighing.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 73 | 81.7% | 280 min | 2.74% | B |
| Envoy Air | 1,081 | 80.2% | 79 min | 1.85% | B |
| PSA Airlines | 737 | 76.9% | 144 min | 4.88% | B− |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 188 | 76.8% | 116 min | 3.72% | B− |
PSA Airlines cancels 4.9% of what it schedules here, the highest in the table. A cancelled flight never appears in an on-time rate, so read that column alongside the punctuality one rather than after it.
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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 188 flights.
There are not enough flights in each departure window to split American's HSV to DFW record by time of day without the percentages moving on noise. The headline rate of 76.8% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
American on HSV to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202536 flights72.2%
- Apr–Jun 202683 flights83.1%
- Jul–Sep 202639 flights84.6%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. 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 76.8% on time across 188 flights.
American on HSV to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 84.6% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 72.2%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 63 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 HSV to DFW runs when it is late
American on HSV to DFW often beats the schedule: 85 of 181 completed flights, 47%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 42 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early85 flights47.0%
- Within 15 min54 flights29.8%
- 15–29 min late17 flights9.4%
- 30–59 min late12 flights6.6%
- 1–2 hours late1 flights0.6%
- 2+ hours late12 flights6.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 181 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 38 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. In the other direction, 11 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 HSV to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 June 2026, 15 hours 3 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in June 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2026 | 15 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 June 2026 | 14 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 June 2026 | 10 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 July 2026 | 3 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 September 2025 | 3 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 72% of the 4,870 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 72%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 11%Late-arriving aircraft
- 5%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 72%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,499 of the 4,870 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,870 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 3.72%, 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
7.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 603 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 44.8% on time across 187 flights, 32 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 32 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 188 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 HSV to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.72% 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. 181 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- HSV to DFW, every carrier
- American on DFW to HSV, the return leg
- Envoy Air on HSV to DFW80.2%
- PSA Airlines on HSV to DFW76.9%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- The US routes with the most cancellations
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.