Flight number record
AA 2501
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Valparaiso
- Route
- DFW → VPS
- Departs
- 13:10
- Flights
- 263
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2501, check with American Airlines.
AA 2501 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 263 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 2501 runs 10 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 100 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
67.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 257 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.90%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
10.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 263 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 2501 flies
AA 2501 flies DFW to VPS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:10, used on 47 of 263 flights, with 12:30 (44 flights) and 13:23 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 13:1047 flights17.9%
- Departs 12:3044 flights16.7%
- Departs 13:2334 flights12.9%
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 13:10 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AA 2501 runs 11 points worse at 67.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AA 2501 next to DFW to VPS
Every carrier on DFW to VPS combined arrived on time 67.8% of the time across 1,331 flights, so AA 2501 is about level with it. American flew 1,020 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 62.1% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2501thin sample | 263 | 67.3% | 63 min | 1.90% | C |
| All American Airlines on DFW–VPS | 1,020 | 62.1% | 76 min | 2.65% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–VPS | 1,331 | 67.8% | 75 min | 2.70% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2501 quarter by quarter
AA 2501 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 75.0% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 62.3%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 66 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 202532 flights75.0%
- Jan–Mar 202648 flights62.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights64.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights62.3%
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2501 did best on Wednesday at 78.8% on time and worst on Saturday at 60.5%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2501 runs when it is late
The 84 late arrivals split 22 under half an hour, 36 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 26 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early48 flights18.7%
- Within 15 min125 flights48.6%
- 15–29 min late22 flights8.6%
- 30–59 min late36 flights14.0%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights5.4%
- 2+ hours late12 flights4.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 257 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 85 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. In the other direction, 13 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 VPS.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2501
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 July 2026, 4 hours 34 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2026 | 4 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 June 2026 | 3 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 July 2026 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 August 2026 | 3 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 August 2026 | 3 hours 13 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 2501 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 5,257 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,257 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 to one. The split is drawn from 5,257 delay minutes reported on AA 2501.
Cancellations sit at 1.90% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.38%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
10.1% 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 641 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.
AA 2501 is not only a DFW to VPS flight. It also flew VPS to DFW (263 flights, 61.7% 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. 263 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VPS to DFWthin sample | 263 | 61.7% | 143 min | 3.04% | D− |
What to do with this
Booking AA 2501
For a booking, read AA 2501 as 67.3% on time with 1.90% cancelled over 263 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to VPS, every carrier and departure
- VPS to DFW, 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
- 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.