Flight number record
AA 1915
American Airlines · Richmond to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- RIC → DFW
- Departs
- 15:33
- Flights
- 266
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1915, check with American Airlines.
AA 1915 draws a C−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 266 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1915 runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 115 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 257 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.01%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
13.2%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 266 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.2% 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 1915 flies
AA 1915 flies RIC to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 15:33, used on 80 of 266 flights, with 15:41 (37 flights) and 15:47 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 15:3380 flights30.1%
- Departs 15:4137 flights13.9%
- Departs 15:4732 flights12.0%
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 15:33 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and AA 1915 runs 6 points worse at 66.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 1915 next to RIC to DFW
Every carrier on RIC to DFW combined arrived on time 70.8% of the time across 1,079 flights, so AA 1915 is 5 points behind it. American flew 1,017 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 69.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1915thin sample | 266 | 66.1% | 67 min | 3.01% | C− |
| All American Airlines on RIC–DFW | 1,017 | 69.9% | 82 min | 2.75% | C |
| All carriers on RIC–DFW | 1,079 | 70.8% | 80 min | 2.69% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1915 quarter by quarter
AA 1915 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 75.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 56.3%, a swing of 20 points on roughly 89 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 202592 flights56.3%
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights64.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.9%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1915 did best on Thursday at 78.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 59.0%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1915 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 5,838 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
- 21%National Airspace System
- 18%Carrier
- 6%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 5,838 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 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 5,838 delay minutes reported on AA 1915.
Cancellations run at 3.01%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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. 13.2% 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 1,158 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 1915 is not only a RIC to DFW flight. It also flew DFW to RIC (253 flights, 79.5% 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. 266 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFW to RICthin sample | 253 | 79.5% | 68 min | 2.77% | B |
What to do with this
Booking AA 1915
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1915: 3.01% of its 266 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
- RIC to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to RIC, the return direction
- American Airlines 2204 on the same route79.9%
- 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
- 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.