Carrier route record

AAICT→DFW

American Airlines · Wichita to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 404
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 16%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.

American on ICT to DFW draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is close to two hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 404 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,239 at 80.1% on time.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so American on ICT to DFW runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 109 extra late arrivals.

On time

66.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 387 completed flights

Avg delay

112 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.96%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

78.0%

Every carrier on ICT to DFW, 2,469 flights

These figures cover 404 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.0% 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 ICT to DFW

American flew 404 of the 2,469 flights on ICT to DFW, about 16% of it. Its 66.7% on time is 11 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 78.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from SkyWest at 84.4% to American at 66.7%. 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.

On-time performance by carrier on ICT to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
SkyWest Airlinesthin sample	45	84.4%	149 min	0.00%	B+
Envoy Air	1,239	80.1%	77 min	3.07%	B−
PSA Airlines	781	79.9%	117 min	3.20%	B−
American Airlines (this page)	404	66.7%	112 min	3.96%	C−

PSA Airlines cancels 3.2% 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 matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 19 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am138 flights74.8%
8am–11am103 flights72.6%
11am–2pm5 flights—
2pm–5pm1 flights—
5pm–8pm157 flights55.5%
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: 55.5% on time, against 74.8% 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 157 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

American on ICT to DFW through the year

Jul–Sep 202540 flights73.0%
Oct–Dec 2025142 flights61.4%
Jan–Mar 202684 flights75.0%
Apr–Jun 2026138 flights65.4%

Scale runs 55% 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 66.7% on time across 404 flights.

American on ICT to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 61.4%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 101 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, Friday is the strongest day at 73.7% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 60.4%. 13 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why American runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 45% of the 14,000 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.

Carrier
45%
Late-arriving aircraft
38%
National Airspace System
12%
Extreme weather
5%

38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 14,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 14,429 reported delay minutes.

The largest share of delay minutes, 45%, 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 6,520 of the 14,000 delay minutes reported here.

Cancellations run at 3.96%, against 1.81% 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 14.0% 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.

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 58.4% on time across 404 flights, 8 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 8 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 404 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 3.96% 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. 387 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

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.

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