Flight number record
AA 2326
American Airlines · Des Moines to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- DSM → DFW
- Departs
- 05:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2326, check with American Airlines.
AA 2326 lands a B−, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2326's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 43 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 349 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.84%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
7.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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.
Schedule
When AA 2326 flies
AA 2326 flies DSM to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:00, used on 150 of 365 flights, with 05:05 (58 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 05:00150 flights41.1%
- Departs 05:0558 flights15.9%
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 05:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2326 runs 7 points worse at 81.9%. 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 2326 next to DSM to DFW
Every carrier on DSM to DFW combined arrived on time 72.5% of the time across 1,436 flights, so AA 2326 is 9 points ahead of it. American flew 949 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 67.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2326 | 365 | 81.9% | 85 min | 3.84% | B− |
| All American Airlines on DSM–DFW | 949 | 67.9% | 105 min | 4.95% | C− |
| All carriers on DSM–DFW | 1,436 | 72.5% | 100 min | 4.11% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2326 quarter by quarter
AA 2326 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 90.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 74.4%, a swing of 16 points on roughly 91 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 flights74.4%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights77.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights90.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.4%
Scale runs 65% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2326 did best on Tuesday at 90.0% on time and worst on Monday at 73.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2326 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 5,381 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.
- 50%Carrier
- 21%Late-arriving aircraft
- 20%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 50%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,668 of the 5,381 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,381 delay minutes reported on AA 2326.
Cancellations run at 3.84%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
7.4% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 624 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 365 flights under AA 2326 in the data flew DSM to DFW. 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. 365 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 2326
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2326: 3.84% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DSM to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to DSM, the return direction
- 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
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.