Carrier route record

AAJFK→DFW

American Airlines · New York to Dallas-Fort Worth

Flights: 1,471
Period: September 2025 to August 2026
Share of route: 75%
Carriers: 3

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

American on JFK to DFW lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That rests on 1,471 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on JFK to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

77.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,418 completed flights

Avg delay

89 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.72%

National rate is 1.89%

Whole route

75.9%

Every carrier on JFK to DFW, 1,953 flights

These figures cover 1,471 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 JFK to DFW

American flew 1,471 of the 1,953 flights on JFK to DFW, most of the route. Its 77.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 75.9%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Frontier at 83.3% to Delta at 68.1%. One 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.

On-time performance by carrier on JFK to DFW
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Frontier Airlinesthin sample	109	83.3%	84 min	0.92%	B+
American Airlines (this page)	1,471	77.2%	89 min	2.72%	B
Delta Air Lines	373	68.1%	96 min	6.43%	C−

Flight by flight

American flight numbers on JFK to DFW

AA 195311:0069.0% · 362 flights

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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 25 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.

5am–8am149 flights91.5%
8am–11am325 flights84.6%
11am–2pm267 flights77.1%
2pm–5pm457 flights73.7%
5pm–8pm273 flights66.4%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 91.5% of the time, against 66.4% for the evening window. That is 25 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 457 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

American on JFK to DFW through the year

Darker means more delays. Figures are on-time percentages.April best, December worst

December is the weak month at 70.6% on time, against 85.5% in April. Winter delays cluster: a single storm system can account for most of a month's shortfall, so an average December hides both very good weeks and genuinely unflyable days. July was the busiest month here, with 155 flights.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 71.9%, a spread of 13 points.

Arrival by arrival

How late American on JFK to DFW runs when it is late

American on JFK to DFW often beats the schedule: 614 of 1,418 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 323 late arrivals split 102 under half an hour, 94 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 127 an hour or more.

15+ min early614 flights43.3%
Within 15 min481 flights33.9%
15–29 min late102 flights7.2%
30–59 min late94 flights6.6%
1–2 hours late68 flights4.8%
2+ hours late59 flights4.2%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 1,418 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

69 of 297 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 95 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 JFK to DFW

The latest arrival of the period was on 26 January 2026, 19 hours 47 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.

The latest arrivals of American on JFK to DFW in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
26 January 2026	19 hours 47 minutes	Carrier
14 December 2025	17 hours 41 minutes	Carrier
20 August 2026	15 hours 7 minutes	Carrier
3 July 2026	13 hours 47 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
1 July 2026	13 hours 25 minutes	Carrier

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 29,000 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
40%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
22%
Extreme weather
6%
Security
0%

40% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 29,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 28,715 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 91.5% on time here.

Cancellations run at 2.72%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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 1,391 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 69.4% on time across 1,466 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.

The sample behind these figures is 1,471 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 JFK to DFW

Put together: the calendar is the biggest lever here, not the carrier or the hour. April runs 85.5% on time and December 70.6%, a swing of 15 points. If the dates move at all, move them out of December before you think about anything else. 1,418 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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