Flight number record
AA 1766
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to New York
- Route
- DFW → JFK
- Departs
- 09:05
- Flights
- 308
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 308 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
74.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 303 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.62%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
8.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 308 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.3% 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 1766 flies
AA 1766 flies DFW to JFK without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:05, used on 46 of 308 flights, with 09:33 (32 flights) and 09:15 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 09:0546 flights14.9%
- Departs 09:3332 flights10.4%
- Departs 09:1532 flights10.4%
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 09:05 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 1766 runs 10 points worse at 74.3%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
AA 1766 next to DFW to JFK
Every carrier on DFW to JFK combined arrived on time 77.0% of the time across 2,009 flights, so AA 1766 is 3 points behind it. American flew 1,404 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 72.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1766thin sample | 308 | 74.3% | 66 min | 1.62% | C |
| All American Airlines on DFW–JFK | 1,404 | 72.3% | 72 min | 2.64% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–JFK | 2,009 | 77.0% | 70 min | 2.99% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | 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 202591 flights76.7%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights81.1%
- Jan–Mar 202681 flights70.5%
- Apr–Jun 202646 flights62.2%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1766 did best on Friday at 86.7% on time and worst on Monday at 65.9%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
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 5,167 reported delay minutes.
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 24%Extreme weather
- 23%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 1%Security
Extreme weather accounts for 24% 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 3.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,167 delay minutes reported on AA 1766.
Cancellations sit at 1.62% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.3% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 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. 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.
AA 1766 is not only a DFW to JFK flight. It also flew JFK to DFW (289 flights, 76.9% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JFK to DFWthin sample | 289 | 76.9% | 59 min | 2.77% | B |
What to do with this
Booking AA 1766
For a booking, read AA 1766 as 74.3% on time with 1.62% cancelled over 308 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to JFK, every carrier and departure
- JFK to DFW, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 454 on the same route90.2%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.