Flight number record
AA 2501
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Valparaiso
- Route
- DFW → VPS
- Departs
- 12:30
- Flights
- 263
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2501, check with American Airlines.
AA 2501 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 9 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 263 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 2501 runs 9 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 91 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
68.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 254 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.42%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
11.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 263 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.4% 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 2501 flies
AA 2501 flies DFW to VPS without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:30, used on 44 of 263 flights, with 13:23 (34 flights) and 12:52 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 12:3044 flights16.7%
- Departs 13:2334 flights12.9%
- Departs 12:5233 flights12.5%
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 12:30 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 2501 runs 10 points worse at 68.5%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 2501 next to DFW to VPS
Every carrier on DFW to VPS combined arrived on time 67.7% of the time across 1,353 flights, so AA 2501 is about level with it. American flew 1,029 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 74.4%, which this flight trails by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2501thin sample | 263 | 68.5% | 67 min | 3.42% | C− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–VPS | 1,029 | 61.8% | 77 min | 3.60% | D− |
| All carriers on DFW–VPS | 1,353 | 67.7% | 75 min | 3.47% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | 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 Jan–Mar 2026 at 62.5%, 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 202592 flights73.6%
- Oct–Dec 202532 flights75.0%
- Jan–Mar 202648 flights62.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights64.4%
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2501 did best on Wednesday at 81.8% on time and worst on Monday at 56.8%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2501 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 5,328 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.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
51% 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 5,328 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 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 5,328 delay minutes reported on AA 2501.
Cancellations run at 3.42%, against 1.81% 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 11.4% 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 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. 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 2501 is not only a DFW to VPS flight. It also flew VPS to DFW (263 flights, 63.3% 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 | 63.3% | 130 min | 4.56% | D− |
What to do with this
Booking AA 2501
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2501: 3.42% of its 263 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
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.