Flight number record
AA 1766
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to New York
- Route
- DFW → JFK
- Departs
- 09:53
- Flights
- 308
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1766, check with American Airlines.
AA 1766 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 3 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 308 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 302 completed flights
Avg delay
75 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.95%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 308 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 2 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 1766 flies
AA 1766 flies DFW to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:53, used on 55 of 308 flights, with 09:05 (46 flights) and 09:50 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 09:5355 flights17.9%
- Departs 09:0546 flights14.9%
- Departs 09:5034 flights11.0%
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 09:53 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AA 1766 runs 10 points worse at 74.2%. 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 1766 next to DFW to JFK
Every carrier on DFW to JFK combined arrived on time 74.6% of the time across 1,948 flights, so AA 1766 is about level with it. American flew 1,466 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 69.4% 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 1766thin sample | 308 | 74.2% | 75 min | 1.95% | C |
| All American Airlines on DFW–JFK | 1,466 | 69.4% | 77 min | 2.66% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–JFK | 1,948 | 74.6% | 78 min | 3.23% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1766 quarter by quarter
AA 1766 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 81.1% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 62.2%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 77 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 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights81.1%
- Jan–Mar 202681 flights70.5%
- Apr–Jun 202646 flights62.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights73.3%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1766 did best on Friday at 84.4% on time and worst on Monday at 56.5%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 28 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1766 runs when it is late
AA 1766 often beats the schedule: 76 of 302 completed flights, 25%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 78 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early76 flights25.2%
- Within 15 min148 flights49.0%
- 15–29 min late31 flights10.3%
- 30–59 min late24 flights7.9%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights4.6%
- 2+ hours late9 flights3.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 302 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 83 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. In the other direction, 16 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 JFK.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1766
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 January 2026, 15 hours 18 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2026 | 15 hours 18 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 13 July 2026 | 12 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 February 2026 | 5 hours 52 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 29 January 2026 | 3 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 March 2026 | 2 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 1766 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 5,839 reported delay minutes.
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 21%Extreme weather
- 19%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 21% 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 3.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,839 delay minutes reported on AA 1766.
Cancellations sit at 1.95% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.6% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,391 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including JFK to DFW (227), but none flew often enough under AA 1766 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to JFK only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 308 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
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For a booking, read AA 1766 as 74.2% on time with 1.95% cancelled over 308 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- DFW to JFK, every carrier and departure
- JFK to DFW, the return direction
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- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) 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.