Carrier route record
AAVPS→DFW
American Airlines · Valparaiso to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Flights
- 1,020
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
- Share of route
- 77%
- Carriers
- 3
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with American Airlines.
American on VPS to DFW sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 1,020 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so American on VPS to DFW runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 67 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 985 completed flights
Avg delay
110 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.65%
National rate is 1.89%
Whole route
73.2%
Every carrier on VPS to DFW, 1,331 flights
These figures cover 1,020 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.8% 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 VPS to DFW
American flew 1,020 of the 1,331 flights on VPS to DFW, most of the route. Its 70.6% on time is 3 points worse than the route as a whole, which runs 73.2%. Ranked by on-time rate it is last of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from PSA at 83.3% to American at 70.6%. 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 | 159 | 83.3% | 137 min | 5.03% | B− |
| Envoy Airthin sample | 152 | 80.7% | 102 min | 1.32% | B |
| American Airlines (this page) | 1,020 | 70.6% | 110 min | 2.65% | C |
Flight by flight
American flight numbers on VPS 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 39 points, against half a point between the best and worst carrier.
- 5am–8am357 flights88.5%
- 8am–11am11 flights—
- 11am–2pm165 flights71.4%
- 2pm–5pm362 flights59.8%
- 5pm–8pm125 flights49.2%
- 8pm–5am—
Scale runs 40% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
The 5pm–8pm window is where this operation falls apart: 49.2% on time, against 88.5% 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 362 flights scheduled in it.
Across the year
American on VPS to DFW through the year
June is the worst month at 52.8% on time, 31 points below April, the best at 84.2%. 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. June was the busiest month here, with 132 flights.
Across the week, Wednesday is the strongest day at 78.2% on time and Sunday the weakest at 62.5%, a spread of 16 points.
Arrival by arrival
How late American on VPS to DFW runs when it is late
The 290 late arrivals split 63 under half an hour, 91 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 136 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early221 flights22.4%
- Within 15 min474 flights48.1%
- 15–29 min late63 flights6.4%
- 30–59 min late91 flights9.2%
- 1–2 hours late76 flights7.7%
- 2+ hours late60 flights6.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 985 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
48 of 308 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. 30 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for American on VPS to DFW
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 June 2026, 24 hours 29 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2026 | 24 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 September 2025 | 20 hours 30 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 19 hours 52 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 6 June 2026 | 18 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 April 2026 | 17 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why American runs late on this route
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 32,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 37%Carrier
- 9%Extreme weather
- 8%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 32,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 31,914 reported delay minutes.
The largest share of delay minutes, 37%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 12,000 of the 32,000 delay minutes reported here.
Cancellations run at 2.65%, 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
13.8% 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 641 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 62.1% on time across 1,020 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. 1,020 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 VPS to DFW
Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 1,020 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 70.6% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 985 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.
Related
Where to go next
- VPS to DFW, every carrier
- American on DFW to VPS, the return leg
- PSA Airlines on VPS to DFW83.3%
- Envoy Air on VPS to DFW80.7%
- 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.