American Airlines is revamping its operations at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport to provide smoother, more seamless airport experiences; greater certainty to schedules and connections; and improved resilience when weather or other disruptions hit, according to an announcement from the carrier.

For more than a decade, said the announcement, American’s schedule at DFW has been concentrated across nine banks, or large clusters of flights across the operating day. As all airline bank structures do, said the announcement, this times large groups of flights together, coordinating arrivals and departures, and ultimately, coordinating quick and seamless connections.

Beginning in April — and already visible in the airline’s schedules — American’s DFW operation is evolving to a 13-bank structure, providing more certainty, said the announcement, to the airline’s average 100,000 peak daily customers traveling on the more than 930 average peak DFW daily departing flights.

Jim Moses, senior vice president of DFW operations, said that as the operating environment and customers’ expectations have evolved in the last 10 years, American’s must also evolve. “We’re making this significant shift while maintaining the same breadth, depth and schedule quality our customers expect and depend on,” he said.

With this structural schedule change, said the announcement, customers will also benefit from more improved early-morning departure times compared with 2025. Specifically, they will experience more departure options in highly desired time windows and fewer early morning departures to DFW, which is especially good news for customers making morning connections through DFW.

“Our investment in operational resilience extends beyond our DFW schedule,” said Moses. “We know the negative impact flight diversions have on our customers. They’re also incredibly disruptive to the broader airline, especially as they create congestion at airports which often limits our ability to get aircraft to a gate and importantly, deplane customers.”