Carrier route record
AAICT→DFW
American Airlines · Wichita to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 399
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 16%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on ICT 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, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 399 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, PSA Airlines, flew 544 at 82.1% on time.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on ICT to DFW runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 93 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 384 completed flights
Avg delay
117 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.51%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
79.9%
Every carrier on ICT to DFW, 2,421 flights
These figures cover 399 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.1% 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 ICT to DFW
American flew 399 of the 2,421 flights on ICT to DFW, about 16% of it. Its 68.0% on time is 12 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 79.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 85.2% to American at 68.0%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The two carriers here are closely matched: half a point 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 | 88 | 85.2% | 151 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| PSA Airlines | 544 | 82.1% | 112 min | 3.31% | B− |
| Envoy Air | 1,390 | 82.0% | 71 min | 2.52% | B |
| American Airlines (this page) | 399 | 68.0% | 117 min | 3.51% | C− |
PSA Airlines cancels 3.3% 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 matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 20 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am116 flights75.7%
- 8am–11am123 flights75.7%
- 11am–2pm5 flights—
- 2pm–5pm1 flights—
- 5pm–8pm154 flights55.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 55.9% on time, against 75.7% for the 5am–8am slot. By evening the aircraft flying these rotations have absorbed a full day of small delays and there is no slack left to recover in. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 154 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on ICT to DFW through the year
- Oct–Dec 2025142 flights61.4%
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights75.0%
- Apr–Jun 2026138 flights65.4%
- Jul–Sep 202635 flights88.2%
Scale runs 55% to 95%.
Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 68.0% on time across 399 flights.
American on ICT to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 88.2% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 61.4%, a swing of 27 points on roughly 100 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.
Across the week, Thursday is the strongest day at 74.5% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 58.5%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on ICT to DFW runs when it is late
American on ICT to DFW often beats the schedule: 107 of 384 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 123 late arrivals split 26 under half an hour, 43 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 54 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early107 flights27.9%
- Within 15 min154 flights40.1%
- 15–29 min late26 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late43 flights11.2%
- 1–2 hours late27 flights7.0%
- 2+ hours late27 flights7.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 384 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 121 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 14 made it up before arrival. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on ICT to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 July 2026, 36 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 July 2026 | 36 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 December 2025 | 27 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 May 2026 | 12 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 June 2026 | 8 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 20 November 2025 | 8 hours 43 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 45% of the 14,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Carrier
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 13%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. The split is drawn from 14,421 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 6,510 of the 14,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 3.51%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
14.1% 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.
At 328 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 57.7% on time across 400 flights, 10 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 10 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 399 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 ICT to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 3.51% 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. 384 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- ICT to DFW, every carrier
- American on DFW to ICT, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on ICT to DFW82.1%
- Envoy Air on ICT to DFW82.0%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- 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.