Dallas-Fort Worth to Des Moines nonstop
Yes: American flies direct from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) to Des Moines (DSM) about 4 times a day, year-round.
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Dallas-Fort Worth to Des Moines in numbers
Measured from US DOT filings, not estimated from distance.
- Distance and flight time
- 624 miles nonstop, about 1 hr 50 min gate to gate. Flight time is an estimate from the great-circle distance; the filings carry distance, not scheduled elapsed time.
- Seasonality
- Flew every month of the last year, a steady 27 flights a week.
- Sep 2025: 27 flights a week
- Oct 2025: 27 flights a week
- Nov 2025: 26 flights a week
- Dec 2025: 27 flights a week
- Jan 2026: 24 flights a week
- Feb 2026: 28 flights a week
- Mar 2026: 27 flights a week
- Apr 2026: 28 flights a week
- May 2026: 26 flights a week
- Jun 2026: 26 flights a week
- Jul 2026: 27 flights a week
- Aug 2026: 27 flights a week
Flights a week by month, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, from US DOT on-time filings. - Who operates the flights
- American 65%, Envoy 18% (regional operator), PSA 17% (regional operator) of departures, counted across the August 2026 and February 2026 US DOT on-time filings.
- Fares
- Half of the 966 tickets in the US DOT fare survey for Q2 2025 sold between $225 and $425 one way, median $275. The survey runs a couple of quarters behind, so read it as the shape of the route's pricing rather than today's quote.
- Jul to Sep (Q3 2024): median $275 one way, middle half $200 to $375, 886 tickets
- Oct to Dec (Q4 2024): median $250 one way, middle half $200 to $400, 1,000 tickets
- Jan to Mar (Q1 2025): median $325 one way, middle half $225 to $450, 734 tickets
- Apr to Jun (Q2 2025): median $275 one way, middle half $225 to $425, 966 tickets
Oct to Dec trips were the cheapest (median $250 one way) and Jan to Mar trips cost the most (median $325), in the DOT ticket survey for Q3 2024 to Q2 2025. Bars show the middle half of one-way fares; the mark is the median.
Flying the other way? Des Moines to Dallas-Fort Worth nonstop.
Also nonstop from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW)
Busiest other routes out of the same airport
- Chicago (ORD) about 22 times a day
- Denver (DEN) about 17 times a day
- Atlanta (ATL) about 17 times a day
- New York (LGA) about 17 times a day
- Los Angeles (LAX) about 16 times a day
- Seattle (SEA) about 15 times a day
- Houston (IAH) about 15 times a day
- San Francisco (SFO) about 14 times a day
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