Flight number record
AA 1217
American Airlines · Raleigh to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- RDU → DFW
- Departs
- 09:42
- Flights
- 358
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1217, check with American Airlines.
AA 1217 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.8 hours. That rests on 358 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1217's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 107 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights
Avg delay
170 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.96%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 358 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When AA 1217 flies
AA 1217 flies RDU to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:42, used on 44 of 358 flights, with 09:00 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 09:4244 flights12.3%
- Departs 09:0040 flights11.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 09:42 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AA 1217 runs 4 points better at 88.0%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AA 1217 next to RDU to DFW
Every carrier on RDU to DFW combined arrived on time 79.7% of the time across 2,263 flights, so AA 1217 is 8 points ahead of it. American flew 1,998 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1217thin sample | 358 | 88.0% | 170 min | 1.96% | A |
| All American Airlines on RDU–DFW | 1,998 | 79.9% | 92 min | 2.35% | B |
| All carriers on RDU–DFW | 2,263 | 79.7% | 89 min | 2.39% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1217 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1217 held fairly steady: 85.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 91.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 87.6% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.5% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights85.6%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights91.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.5%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1217 ranged from 82.0% on Sunday to 92.2% on Wednesday. With about 51 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1217 runs when it is late
AA 1217 often beats the schedule: 150 of 351 completed flights, 43%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 42 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early150 flights42.7%
- Within 15 min159 flights45.3%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.1%
- 30–59 min late10 flights2.8%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late13 flights3.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 351 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 43 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. Only 7 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1217
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 September 2025, 25 hours 43 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2025 | 25 hours 43 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 August 2026 | 12 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 February 2026 | 11 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 7 hours 38 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 24 January 2026 | 7 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1217 runs late
Carrier accounts for 80% of the 7,147 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 80%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 6%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 80%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,740 of the 7,147 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,147 delay minutes reported on AA 1217.
Cancellations sit at 1.96% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.8 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,061 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
Every one of the 358 flights under AA 1217 in the data flew RDU to DFW. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 358 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking AA 1217
For a booking, read AA 1217 as 88.0% on time with 1.96% cancelled over 358 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- RDU to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to RDU, the return direction
- Raleigh-Durham International (RDU) delay statistics
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A flight number here means American Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.