Carrier route record
AASJU→DFW
American Airlines · San Juan to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 704
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 72%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on SJU to DFW lands a B, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That rests on 704 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, American's SJU to DFW record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 54 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 686 completed flights
Avg delay
80 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.70%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
80.3%
Every carrier on SJU to DFW, 975 flights
These figures cover 704 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 13 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Carrier by carrier
American against every carrier on SJU to DFW
American flew 704 of the 975 flights on SJU to DFW, most of the route. Its 82.7% on time is 2 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 80.3%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 82.7% to Frontier at 71.1%. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines (this page) | 704 | 82.7% | 80 min | 1.70% | B |
| Spirit Airlinesthin sample | 187 | 75.1% | 71 min | 4.28% | B− |
| Frontier Airlinesthin sample | 84 | 71.1% | 74 min | 9.52% | 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 14 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am275 flights85.8%
- 8am–11am—
- 11am–2pm—
- 2pm–5pm276 flights75.7%
- 5pm–8pm—
- 8pm–5am153 flights89.4%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 8pm–5am window is the strongest at 89.4% on time. The full set of windows spans 14 points.
Across the year
American on SJU to DFW through the year
January is the weak month at 62.5% on time, against 93.4% in July. 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. April was the busiest month here, with 86 flights.
Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 89.2% on time and Saturday the weakest at 73.3%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on SJU to DFW runs when it is late
American on SJU to DFW often beats the schedule: 323 of 686 completed flights, 47%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 119 late arrivals split 40 under half an hour, 50 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 29 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early323 flights47.1%
- Within 15 min244 flights35.6%
- 15–29 min late40 flights5.8%
- 30–59 min late50 flights7.3%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights1.9%
- 2+ hours late16 flights2.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 686 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 152 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 64 still arrived on time. 31 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on SJU to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 October 2025, 18 hours 36 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 October 2025 | 18 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 October 2025 | 18 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 June 2026 | 11 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 March 2026 | 4 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 August 2026 | 4 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Carrier accounts for 49% of the 9,473 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 49%Carrier
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,473 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 19 to one. The split is drawn from 9,473 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 49%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,650 of the 9,473 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations sit at 1.70% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.85%.
Connections and stage length
What a delay here costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.2% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 2,165 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 69.4% on time across 703 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. 704 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 SJU to DFW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 704 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 82.7% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 686 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- SJU to DFW, every carrier
- American on DFW to SJU, the return leg
- Spirit Airlines on SJU to DFW75.1%
- American Airlines network-wide record
- Luis Munoz Marin International (SJU) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
- The best time of day to fly, according to 7.05 million flight records
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.