Flight number record
AA 2326
American Airlines · Des Moines to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- DSM → DFW
- Departs
- 05:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2326, check with American Airlines.
AA 2326 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2326's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 74 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
96 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.47%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2326 flies
AA 2326 flies DSM to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:00, used on 114 of 365 flights, with 05:05 (58 flights) next.
- Departs 05:00114 flights31.2%
- Departs 05:0558 flights15.9%
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 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 5 points worse at 84.7%. 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 2326 next to DSM to DFW
Every carrier on DSM to DFW combined arrived on time 74.3% of the time across 1,440 flights, so AA 2326 is 10 points ahead of it. American flew 971 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 69.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2326 | 365 | 84.7% | 96 min | 2.47% | B |
| All American Airlines on DSM–DFW | 971 | 69.7% | 105 min | 4.02% | C− |
| All carriers on DSM–DFW | 1,440 | 74.3% | 100 min | 3.61% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | 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 Oct–Dec 2025 at 77.8%, a swing of 13 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights77.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights90.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights85.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.7%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2326 did best on Thursday at 94.1% on time and worst on Monday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2326 runs when it is late
AA 2326 often beats the schedule: 139 of 354 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 54 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 12 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early139 flights39.3%
- Within 15 min161 flights45.5%
- 15–29 min late18 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late12 flights3.4%
- 1–2 hours late8 flights2.3%
- 2+ hours late16 flights4.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 354 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 46 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2326
The latest arrival of the period was on 11 March 2026, 8 hours 28 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across March, June, January and December, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 11 March 2026 | 8 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 16 March 2026 | 5 hours 59 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 June 2026 | 5 hours 34 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 28 January 2026 | 5 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 December 2025 | 4 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2326 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 5,164 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Carrier
- 29%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 42%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,149 of the 5,164 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,164 delay minutes reported on AA 2326.
Cancellations sit at 2.47% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.55%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
6.8% 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 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.
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.
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For a booking, read AA 2326 as 84.7% on time with 2.47% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.