Carrier route record
AASAV→DFW
American Airlines · Savannah to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 865
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 85%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on SAV 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 865 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
The US average over the same twelve months is 77.3%, so there is little to separate American on SAV 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
76.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 839 completed flights
Avg delay
104 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.54%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
76.3%
Every carrier on SAV to DFW, 1,022 flights
These figures cover 865 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.8% 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 SAV to DFW
American flew 865 of the 1,022 flights on SAV to DFW, most of the route. Its 76.2% on time is about level with the route as a whole at 76.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 78.2% to Envoy at 72.0%. Two 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA Airlinesthin sample | 129 | 78.2% | 102 min | 3.10% | B− |
| American Airlines (this page) | 865 | 76.2% | 104 min | 2.54% | B |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 28 | 72.0% | 68 min | 10.71% | C− |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on SAV 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 33 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am340 flights90.7%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm44 flights76.2%
- 2pm–5pm278 flights71.7%
- 5pm–8pm203 flights57.4%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 50% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 57.4% on time, against 90.7% 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 340 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on SAV to DFW through the year
July is the worst month at 66.1% on time, 17 points below February, the best at 83.3%. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 110 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 83.1% on time and Sunday the weakest at 68.7%, a spread of 14 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on SAV to DFW runs when it is late
American on SAV to DFW often beats the schedule: 232 of 839 completed flights, 28%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 200 late arrivals split 56 under half an hour, 62 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 82 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early232 flights27.7%
- Within 15 min407 flights48.5%
- 15–29 min late56 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late62 flights7.4%
- 1–2 hours late34 flights4.1%
- 2+ hours late48 flights5.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 839 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
38 of 210 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 28 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on SAV to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 May 2026, 19 hours 48 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.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 May 2026 | 19 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 September 2025 | 17 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 9 November 2025 | 16 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 March 2026 | 15 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 January 2026 | 12 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 21,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
53% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 21,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 20,756 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 35%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 7,215 of the 21,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.54%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
9.8% 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 925 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 63.5% on time across 865 flights, 13 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 13 points of difference.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 865 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 SAV to DFW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 865 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 76.2% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 839 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
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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.