Carrier route record
AALBB→DFW
American Airlines · Lubbock to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 289
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 11%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on LBB to DFW earns an A−. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.1 hours. That rests on 289 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, Envoy Air, flew 1,571 at 86.7% on time.
Set against the rest of the country, American's LBB to DFW record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 97 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 276 completed flights
Avg delay
127 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.50%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
84.1%
Every carrier on LBB to DFW, 2,617 flights
These figures cover 289 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.1% 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 LBB to DFW
American flew 289 of the 2,617 flights on LBB to DFW, about 11% of it. Its 87.0% on time is 3 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 84.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 87.0% to PSA at 75.1%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.
The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. Envoy Air arrives on time 86.7% of the time; SkyWest Airlines manages 79.2%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 400 flights means less than a ten-point one.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page)thin sample | 289 | 87.0% | 127 min | 4.50% | A− |
| Envoy Air | 1,571 | 86.7% | 93 min | 1.21% | A |
| SkyWest Airlines | 400 | 79.2% | 86 min | 2.75% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 357 | 75.1% | 126 min | 5.88% | B− |
Envoy leads SkyWest by 8 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh 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 21 points, against 8 points between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am205 flights93.3%
- 8am–11am2 flights—
- 11am–2pm2 flights—
- 2pm–5pm28 flights—
- 5pm–8pm52 flights72.0%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 93.3% of the time, against 72.0% for the evening window. That is 21 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 205 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on LBB to DFW through the year
- Jul–Sep 202556 flights75.5%
- Oct–Dec 2025135 flights86.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights94.1%
- Apr–Jun 20268 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 100%. 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 87.0% on time across 289 flights.
American on LBB to DFW did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 94.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 75.5%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 96 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, Tuesday is the strongest day at 95.2% on time and Monday the weakest at 74.4%, a spread of 21 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on LBB to DFW runs when it is late
American on LBB to DFW often beats the schedule: 126 of 276 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When American on LBB to DFW is late it tends to be very late: 25 of its 36 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 12 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early126 flights45.7%
- Within 15 min114 flights41.3%
- 15–29 min late4 flights1.4%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.5%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights4.7%
- 2+ hours late12 flights4.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 276 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 37 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 6 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on LBB to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 September 2025, 7 hours 3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2025 | 7 hours 3 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 September 2025 | 5 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 April 2026 | 5 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 December 2025 | 5 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 15 January 2026 | 4 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 4,555 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 13%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,555 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 4,555 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,605 of the 4,555 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 4.50%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
9.1% 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 282 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 65.2% on time across 288 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. 289 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 LBB to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 4.50% cancellation rate. A late arrival costs you about 2.1 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. 276 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- LBB to DFW, every carrier
- American on DFW to LBB, the return leg
- Envoy Air on LBB to DFW86.7%
- SkyWest Airlines on LBB to DFW79.2%
- PSA Airlines on LBB to DFW75.1%
- 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.