Flight number record
AA 1703
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Charlotte
- Route
- DFW → CLT
- Departs
- 16:47
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1703, check with American Airlines.
AA 1703 draws a D−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1703 runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 133 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
69 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.57%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
12.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When AA 1703 flies
AA 1703 flies DFW to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:47, used on 56 of 364 flights, with 19:16 (50 flights) and 19:15 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 16:4756 flights15.4%
- Departs 19:1650 flights13.7%
- Departs 19:1544 flights12.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 16:47 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and AA 1703 runs 8 points worse at 64.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 1703 next to DFW to CLT
Every carrier on DFW to CLT combined arrived on time 73.7% of the time across 3,882 flights, so AA 1703 is 9 points behind it. American flew 3,600 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1703thin sample | 364 | 64.3% | 69 min | 3.57% | D− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–CLT | 3,600 | 73.4% | 71 min | 2.53% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–CLT | 3,882 | 73.7% | 71 min | 2.58% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1703 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1703 held fairly steady: 59.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 67.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 65.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 64.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights59.3%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights67.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights65.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights64.7%
Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1703 did best on Friday at 71.2% on time and worst on Monday at 52.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1703 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 8,592 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 31%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 8,592 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 8,592 delay minutes reported on AA 1703.
Cancellations run at 3.57%, against 1.81% 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 12.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
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 a little over 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 route86.1%
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.