Flight number record
AA 2186
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Orlando
- Route
- DFW → MCO
- Departs
- 18:45
- Flights
- 350
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2186, check with American Airlines.
AA 2186 earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 45.3% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 32 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average a little over an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 350 flights, with a median arrival 21 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 2186 runs 32 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 320 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
45.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 338 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.14%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
23.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 350 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 23.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 2186 flies
AA 2186 flies DFW to MCO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:45, used on 53 of 350 flights, with 18:20 (49 flights) and 18:30 (49 flights) next.
- Departs 18:4553 flights15.1%
- Departs 18:2049 flights14.0%
- Departs 18:3049 flights14.0%
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 18:45 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 2186 runs 23 points worse at 45.3%. 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 2186 next to DFW to MCO
Every carrier on DFW to MCO combined arrived on time 64.5% of the time across 4,892 flights, so AA 2186 is 19 points behind it. American flew 3,674 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 61.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 29 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2186thin sample | 350 | 45.3% | 68 min | 3.14% | F− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–MCO | 3,674 | 61.8% | 68 min | 2.56% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–MCO | 4,892 | 64.5% | 71 min | 2.58% | D |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2186 quarter by quarter
AA 2186 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 47.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 31.1%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 88 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 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights47.7%
- Jan–Mar 202678 flights44.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights47.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights31.1%
Scale runs 25% to 55%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2186 did best on Wednesday at 65.1% on time and worst on Saturday at 33.3%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 32 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2186 runs when it is late
The 185 late arrivals split 48 under half an hour, 59 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 78 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early28 flights8.3%
- Within 15 min125 flights37.0%
- 15–29 min late48 flights14.2%
- 30–59 min late59 flights17.5%
- 1–2 hours late48 flights14.2%
- 2+ hours late30 flights8.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 338 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 179 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 14 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 20 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 MCO.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2186
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 July 2026, 4 hours 19 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2026 | 4 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 July 2026 | 3 hours 56 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 June 2026 | 3 hours 43 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 27 October 2025 | 3 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 August 2026 | 3 hours 18 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2186 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 59% of the 13,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 59%Late-arriving aircraft
- 26%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
59% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 16 to one. The split is drawn from 12,661 delay minutes reported on AA 2186.
Cancellations run at 3.14%, 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
23.1% 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 985 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 350 flights under AA 2186 in the data flew DFW to MCO. 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. 350 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 2186
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2186: 3.14% of its 350 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 MCO, every carrier and departure
- MCO to DFW, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Orlando International (MCO) 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.