Carrier route record
AAPNS→DFW
American Airlines · Pensacola to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,087
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 64%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on PNS to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 1,087 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on PNS to DFW runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 43 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 1,053 completed flights
Avg delay
122 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.85%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.7%
Every carrier on PNS to DFW, 1,706 flights
These figures cover 1,087 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.9% 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 PNS to DFW
American flew 1,087 of the 1,706 flights on PNS to DFW, most of the route. Its 73.0% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 73.7%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Envoy at 81.8% to PSA at 70.1%. 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.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy Airthin sample | 237 | 81.8% | 72 min | 0.42% | B+ |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,087 | 73.0% | 122 min | 2.85% | C |
| PSA Airlines | 382 | 70.1% | 121 min | 6.54% | C− |
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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 34 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am263 flights89.0%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm313 flights78.1%
- 2pm–5pm363 flights64.6%
- 5pm–8pm148 flights54.9%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 45% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 54.9% on time, against 89.0% 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 2pm–5pm window is the busiest, with 363 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on PNS to DFW through the year
June is the worst month at 43.4% on time, 43 points below January, the best at 86.3%. 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 111 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 79.6% on time and Saturday the weakest at 65.8%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on PNS to DFW runs when it is late
American on PNS to DFW often beats the schedule: 309 of 1,053 completed flights, 29%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When American on PNS to DFW is late it tends to be very late: 146 of its 284 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 70 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early309 flights29.3%
- Within 15 min460 flights43.7%
- 15–29 min late58 flights5.5%
- 30–59 min late80 flights7.6%
- 1–2 hours late76 flights7.2%
- 2+ hours late70 flights6.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 1,053 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
54 of 319 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. Only 19 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on PNS to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 October 2025, 26 hours 45 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across October, November, January and September, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 October 2025 | 26 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 November 2025 | 22 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 January 2026 | 21 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 September 2025 | 20 hours 36 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 23 November 2025 | 18 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 35,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 12%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 12% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 1.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 34,703 reported delay minutes.
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 35,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one.
Cancellations run at 2.85%, 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
13.9% 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 604 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 65.0% on time across 1,086 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. 1,087 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 PNS to DFW
Put together: the delay figures matter less here than the 2.85% 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. 1,053 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- PNS to DFW, every carrier
- American on DFW to PNS, the return leg
- Envoy Air on PNS to DFW81.8%
- PSA Airlines on PNS to DFW70.1%
- 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.