Flight number record
AA 1561
American Airlines · Grand Rapids to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- GRR → DFW
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1561, check with American Airlines.
AA 1561 lands a B−, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
76.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights
Avg delay
122 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.56%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 1561 flies
AA 1561 flies GRR to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 134 of 365 flights, with 07:02 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00134 flights36.7%
- Departs 07:0237 flights10.1%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1561 runs 13 points worse at 76.1%. 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 1561 next to GRR to DFW
Every carrier on GRR to DFW combined arrived on time 71.2% of the time across 983 flights, so AA 1561 is 5 points ahead of it. American flew 960 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 70.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1561 | 365 | 76.1% | 122 min | 3.56% | B− |
| All American Airlines on GRR–DFW | 960 | 70.8% | 109 min | 2.71% | C |
| All carriers on GRR–DFW | 983 | 71.2% | 108 min | 2.95% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1561 quarter by quarter
AA 1561 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 93.5% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 62.8%, a swing of 31 points on roughly 91 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights69.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights62.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.6%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.5%
Scale runs 55% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1561 did best on Wednesday at 86.3% on time and worst on Saturday at 64.6%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1561 runs when it is late
AA 1561 often beats the schedule: 105 of 351 completed flights, 30%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 84 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 36 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early105 flights29.9%
- Within 15 min162 flights46.2%
- 15–29 min late24 flights6.8%
- 30–59 min late24 flights6.8%
- 1–2 hours late17 flights4.8%
- 2+ hours late19 flights5.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 351 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
20 of 70 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 29% of them. In the other direction, 34 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1561
The latest arrival of the period was on 1 December 2025, 18 hours 10 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 December 2025 | 18 hours 10 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 September 2025 | 14 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 April 2026 | 12 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 January 2026 | 11 hours 1 minute | Carrier |
| 29 December 2025 | 10 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1561 runs late
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 17%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%Extreme weather
- 15%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 16% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.7 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 10,243 delay minutes reported on AA 1561.
Cancellations run at 3.56%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
10.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 931 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 365 flights under AA 1561 in the data flew GRR 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. 365 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 1561
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1561: 3.56% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- GRR to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to GRR, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- How often a connection fails at the major US hubs
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.