Carrier route record
AAOMA→DFW
American Airlines · Omaha to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,345
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 86%
- Carriers
- 4
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on OMA to DFW lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 1,345 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on OMA to DFW from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.
Key figures
On time
76.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,297 completed flights
Avg delay
124 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.83%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
77.3%
Every carrier on OMA to DFW, 1,557 flights
These figures cover 1,345 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.4% 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 OMA to DFW
American flew 1,345 of the 1,557 flights on OMA to DFW, most of the route. Its 76.5% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 77.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number three of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 83.8% to SkyWest at 60.0%. Three 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 183 | 83.8% | 66 min | 1.64% | B |
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 24 | 77.3% | 51 min | 8.33% | B− |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,345 | 76.5% | 124 min | 2.83% | B |
| SkyWest Airlinesthin sample | 5 | 60.0% | 152 min | 0.00% | D+ |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on OMA to DFW
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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 27 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am365 flights88.1%
- 8am–11am251 flights79.7%
- 11am–2pm163 flights74.8%
- 2pm–5pm216 flights78.8%
- 5pm–8pm347 flights61.0%
- 8pm–5am3 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 61.0% on time, against 88.1% 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 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 365 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on OMA to DFW through the year
July is the worst month at 66.4% on time, 23 points below February, the best at 89.0%. Summer afternoon convection and peak-season schedules land on the same weeks every year, so this is a pattern you can book around rather than a run of bad luck. May was the busiest month here, with 140 flights.
Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 80.1% on time and Saturday the weakest at 71.4%, a spread of 9 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on OMA to DFW runs when it is late
American on OMA to DFW often beats the schedule: 450 of 1,297 completed flights, 35%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 305 late arrivals split 91 under half an hour, 79 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 135 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early450 flights34.7%
- Within 15 min542 flights41.8%
- 15–29 min late91 flights7.0%
- 30–59 min late79 flights6.1%
- 1–2 hours late67 flights5.2%
- 2+ hours late68 flights5.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,297 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
68 of 324 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 49 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on OMA to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 August 2026, 57 hours 12 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2026 | 57 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 March 2026 | 44 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 July 2026 | 37 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 January 2026 | 32 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 April 2026 | 18 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 38,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 43%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 38,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 16 to one. The split is drawn from 37,765 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 43%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 16,000 of the 38,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.83%, 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
10.4% 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 583 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 64.7% on time across 1,346 flights, 12 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 12 points of difference.
The sample behind these figures is 1,345 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 OMA to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.83% 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. 1,297 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- OMA to DFW, every carrier
- American on DFW to OMA, the return leg
- Envoy Air on OMA to DFW83.8%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) delay statistics
- 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.