Flight number record
AA 1703
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Charlotte
- Route
- DFW → CLT
- Departs
- 19:16
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1703, check with American Airlines.
AA 1703 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 1703 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 87 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.57%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 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 1703 flies
AA 1703 flies DFW to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:16, used on 50 of 364 flights, with 19:15 (44 flights) and 17:54 (41 flights) next.
- Departs 19:1650 flights13.7%
- Departs 19:1544 flights12.1%
- Departs 17:5441 flights11.3%
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 19:16 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 1703 runs level with that at 68.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AA 1703 next to DFW to CLT
Every carrier on DFW to CLT combined arrived on time 74.3% of the time across 3,904 flights, so AA 1703 is 6 points behind it. American flew 3,620 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.1% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1703thin sample | 364 | 68.6% | 67 min | 3.57% | C− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–CLT | 3,620 | 74.1% | 65 min | 2.21% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–CLT | 3,904 | 74.3% | 65 min | 2.31% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1703 quarter by quarter
AA 1703 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 80.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 64.7%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 73 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 flights80.0%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights67.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights65.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights64.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights73.8%
Scale runs 55% to 85%.
By weekday, AA 1703 did best on Wednesday at 76.5% on time and worst on Monday at 56.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1703 runs when it is late
The 110 late arrivals split 36 under half an hour, 38 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 36 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early63 flights18.0%
- Within 15 min177 flights50.6%
- 15–29 min late36 flights10.3%
- 30–59 min late38 flights10.9%
- 1–2 hours late20 flights5.7%
- 2+ hours late16 flights4.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
24 of 122 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1703
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 May 2026, 6 hours 7 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 May 2026 | 6 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 June 2026 | 5 hours 46 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 September 2025 | 5 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 September 2025 | 4 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 June 2026 | 4 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 1703 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 7,379 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,379 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. The split is drawn from 7,379 delay minutes reported on AA 1703.
Cancellations run at 3.57%, 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 935 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 364 flights under AA 1703 in the data flew DFW to CLT. 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. 364 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 1703
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1703: 3.57% of its 364 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to CLT, every carrier and departure
- CLT to DFW, the return direction
- American Airlines 317 on the same route85.6%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.