Carrier route record
AAHSV→DFW
American Airlines · Huntsville to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 213
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
- Share of route
- 10%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on HSV to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 213 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,022 at 78.4% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so American on HSV to DFW runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 43 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 202 completed flights
Avg delay
99 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.16%
National rate is 1.81%
Whole route
76.3%
Every carrier on HSV to DFW, 2,055 flights
These figures cover 213 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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.
Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on HSV to DFW
American flew 213 of the 2,055 flights on HSV to DFW, about 10% of it. Its 73.3% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 76.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 78.4% to American at 73.3%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Air | 1,022 | 78.4% | 80 min | 2.15% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 99 | 76.0% | 194 min | 3.03% | B− |
| PSA Airlines | 721 | 74.2% | 146 min | 4.58% | C− |
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 213 | 73.3% | 99 min | 5.16% | C− |
PSA Airlines cancels 4.6% 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.
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 213 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 73.3% is the reliable figure here.
Across the year
American on HSV to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202594 flights65.2%
- Oct–Dec 202536 flights72.2%
- Apr–Jun 202683 flights83.1%
Scale runs 55% 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 73.3% on time across 213 flights.
American on HSV to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 65.2%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 71 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.
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 68% of the 5,328 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.
- 68%Carrier
- 16%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 68%, 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 3,606 of the 5,328 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,328 reported delay minutes.
Cancellations run at 5.16%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
6.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, 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. 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 51.5% on time across 214 flights, 22 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 22 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 213 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 5.16% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you an hour and a half; 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. 202 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 DFW78.4%
- PSA Airlines on HSV to DFW74.2%
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.