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American Airlines DFW to SEA on-time performance

American Airlines nonstop flights from Dallas/Fort Worth to Seattle · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

On-time arrivals
65%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
2.6%
70 flights
Avg arrival delay
24 min
64 min when late
Rank on route
#3 of 4
route average 71% on time

Key facts

  • American Airlines flights on DFW to SEA arrived on time 65% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 2.6% were cancelled, and 11% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #3 of 4 airlines on this route, which averaged 71% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (40%).

On-time trend by month

40%70%100%July 2025: 63.3% on time, 1.2% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 65.2% on time, 4.1% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 75.5% on time, 2.3% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 63.8% on time, 0.4% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 69.6% on time, 2.8% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 54.8% on time, 0.0% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 71.4% on time, 11.6% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 70.5% on time, 0.6% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 68.5% on time, 2.4% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 71.6% on time, 1.3% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 62.3% on time, 2.8% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 50.4% on time, 2.7% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 65.0% on time, 0.0% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft40%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)37%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion14%
  • Extreme weather9%
  • Security0%

Other airlines on DFW to SEA

Full DFW to SEA comparison →
American Airlines on-time record across all routes →

2,737 American Airlines flights tracked on this route; 70 cancelled, 4 diverted.

Data: U.S. DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 (12 months). Latest month published by BTS: July 2026. How we calculate this.