Flight number record

AA 2563

American Airlines · Austin to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: AUS → DFW
Departs: 05:00
Flights: 335
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2563, check with American Airlines.

AA 2563 earns an A−. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.1 hours. That rests on 335 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 2563's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 158 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

93.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights

Avg delay

129 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.48%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.8%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 335 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 2563 flies

AA 2563 flies AUS to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:00, used on 232 of 335 flights, with 05:01 (100 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:00232 flights69.3%
Departs 05:01100 flights29.9%

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 2563 runs 4 points better at 93.4%. 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 2563 next to AUS to DFW

Every carrier on AUS to DFW combined arrived on time 73.8% of the time across 4,742 flights, so AA 2563 is 20 points ahead of it. American flew 3,591 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 19 points.

AA 2563 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2563thin sample	335	93.4%	129 min	4.48%	A−
All American Airlines on AUS–DFW	3,591	74.3%	113 min	3.76%	C−
All carriers on AUS–DFW	4,742	73.8%	113 min	3.88%	C−
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2563 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 2563 held fairly steady: 94.2% in Jul–Sep 2025, 96.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.6% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 92.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202591 flights94.2%
Oct–Dec 202587 flights96.4%
Jan–Mar 202666 flights90.6%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.0%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2563 did best on Wednesday at 100.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 86.4%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 2563 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 54% of the 2,698 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.

Carrier
54%
National Airspace System
27%
Late-arriving aircraft
11%
Extreme weather
9%

The largest share of delay minutes, 54%, 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 1,449 of the 2,698 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,698 delay minutes reported on AA 2563.

Cancellations run at 4.48%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

Every one of the 335 flights under AA 2563 in the data flew AUS 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. 335 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 2563

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2563: 4.48% of its 335 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.1 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

Where to go next

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.

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