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Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is one of the most important hub airports in the United States, with its relatively central location making it an ideal spot for passengers to transit while journeying across America, or even further. While domestic and short-haul flying is DFW’s bread and butter, the airport is also home to a diverse network of long-haul flights that are served by a wide variety of airlines using all sorts of widebodies.
According to present scheduling data made available by Cirium, an aviation analytics company, these carriers have collectively penciled in a grand total of 1,247 widebody departures from the Texan hub in January of 2026. Let’s dive deeper into the data to see which airlines, aircraft, and routes are involved.
American Airlines Is The Dominant Force
For most people, given that the Texan facility serves as one of its main hubs, it will come as little surprise to see that American Airlines is DFW’s top widebody operator, accounting for 802 of the airport’s 1,247 widebody departures (64.3%) this month. As seen above, these flights serve 26 cities both internationally and domestically, and are split between the Boeing 787-9 (304 flights), the 787-8 (233), the 777-200ER (176), and the 777-300ER (89).
London Heathrow Airport (LHR) is American’s top widebody destination this month, with an average of almost four daily twin-aisle departures (118 in total). Meanwhile, Honolulu (HNL) and Kahului (OGG) see two daily widebody flights, with Philadelphia (54), Miami (48), and Sao Paulo (44) also served more than daily on average. AA is reshaping its DFW ops to improve customer journeys, with Jim Moses, its SVP of Operations, saying that:
“We’re making this significant shift while maintaining the same breadth, depth, and schedule quality our customers expect and depend on. That means good things for American’s customers, [and] our team members.”
Other Big Hitters
While no carrier comes close to AA’s widebody presence at DFW, there are three airlines whose twin-aisle operations at the facility amount to more than one flight a day on average this month. AA’s fellow oneworld member Qatar Airways just about comes out on top, with 62 departures coming in the form of a daily flight apiece to its main hub at Doha Hamad International Airport (DOH) using the Airbus A350-1000 and Boeing 777-200LR.
Qantas, another one of American Airlines’ many oneworld partner carriers, lags behind Qatar Airways by just one flight in the DFW widebody stakes this month, with a grand total of 61 twin-aisle flights scheduled. These are split between 31 Sydney-bound rotations with the Airbus A380 and 30 flights to Melbourne that will make use of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. January 24 was the only day this month that did not see one of these services.
Turkish Airlines, meanwhile, has penciled in a grand total of 44 widebody departures from DFW Airport this month, with all of them going to its main hub at the new Istanbul Airport (IST). This figure is split between 25 flights with the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner and 19 with the 777-300ER, and, as far as the frequency of these services is concerned, Turkish Airlines’ widebody schedule out of DFW amounts to 10 flights a week to Istanbul Airport.
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The Best Of The Rest
Moving down in frequency terms, five airlines have scheduled exactly one widebody departure every day this month from DFW Airport. As seen above, British Airways is one such operator, with the UK flag carrier and oneworld founding member flying its A350-1000s to London. Elsewhere, Cathay Pacific flies the same type to Hong Kong, 
Emirates flies the 777-300ER to Dubai, and EVA Air and Korean Air fly the 787-9 to Taipei and Seoul.
Of the six remaining carriers that fly widebodies less than daily from DFW, four are based in Europe. Finnair comes out on top here, with 29 flights to Helsinki, followed by Iberia (18 flights to Madrid), Air France (17 flights to Paris), and Lufthansa (17 flights to Frankfurt). Looking to the west, Japan Airlines’ A350s and 777s are combining to serve Tokyo Haneda 28 times from DFW this month, while Fiji Airways’ A350s will serve Nadi 14 times.
