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American Airlines EWR to DFW on-time performance

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

On-time arrivals
80%
arrived < 15 min late
Cancelled
4.0%
57 flights
Avg arrival delay
20 min
97 min when late
Rank on route
#3 of 5
route average 79% on time

Key facts

  • American Airlines flights on EWR to DFW arrived on time 80% of the time in Aug 2025 – Jul 2026.
  • 4% were cancelled, and 9% arrived an hour or more late.
  • That ranks #3 of 5 airlines on this route, which averaged 79% on time overall.
  • The largest source of delay minutes was late-arriving aircraft (42%).

On-time trend by month

50%75%100%July 2025: 74.3% on time, 5.7% cancelledJul ’25August 2025: 75.2% on time, 3.3% cancelledAug ’25September 2025: 78.1% on time, 1.7% cancelledSep ’25October 2025: 83.3% on time, 3.2% cancelledOct ’25November 2025: 80.9% on time, 4.3% cancelledNov ’25December 2025: 80.3% on time, 1.7% cancelledDec ’25January 2026: 88.2% on time, 13.6% cancelledJan ’26February 2026: 80.2% on time, 7.3% cancelledFeb ’26March 2026: 85.4% on time, 0.0% cancelledMar ’26April 2026: 84.0% on time, 0.8% cancelledApr ’26May 2026: 76.1% on time, 4.0% cancelledMay ’26June 2026: 75.7% on time, 5.0% cancelledJun ’26July 2026: 69.2% on time, 3.2% cancelledJul ’26
On-time arrival rate by month. Hover a bar for exact figures.

Why this airline's flights were late

  • Late-arriving aircraft42%
  • Airline (crew, maintenance, cleaning, fueling)29%
  • Air traffic control & airport congestion18%
  • Extreme weather11%
  • Security1%

Other airlines on EWR to DFW

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

1,439 American Airlines flights tracked on this route; 57 cancelled, 11 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.