Flight number record
AA 2563
American Airlines · Austin to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- AUS → DFW
- Departs
- 05:00
- Flights
- 333
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 333 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2563's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 161 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
93.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 320 completed flights
Avg delay
120 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.90%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 333 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 2563 flies
AA 2563 flies AUS to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:00, used on 197 of 333 flights, with 05:01 (132 flights) next.
- Departs 05:00197 flights59.2%
- Departs 05:01132 flights39.6%
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 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.
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Against the route
AA 2563 next to AUS to DFW
Every carrier on AUS to DFW combined arrived on time 74.9% of the time across 4,728 flights, so AA 2563 is 19 points ahead of it. American flew 3,611 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.1% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 19 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2563thin sample | 333 | 93.4% | 120 min | 3.90% | A− |
| All American Airlines on AUS–DFW | 3,611 | 75.1% | 108 min | 3.27% | B− |
| All carriers on AUS–DFW | 4,728 | 74.9% | 109 min | 3.28% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2563 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2563 held fairly steady: 96.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.6% in Jan–Mar 2026, 92.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 94.9% in Jul–Sep 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 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights96.4%
- Jan–Mar 202666 flights90.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights92.0%
- Jul–Sep 202660 flights94.9%
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.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2563 runs when it is late
AA 2563 often beats the schedule: 171 of 320 completed flights, 53%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 21 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 5 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early171 flights53.4%
- Within 15 min128 flights40.0%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.2%
- 30–59 min late5 flights1.6%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.3%
- 2+ hours late5 flights1.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 320 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 20 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. Only 3 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2563
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 June 2026, 11 hours 5 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2026 | 11 hours 5 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 April 2026 | 6 hours | Extreme weather |
| 7 March 2026 | 5 hours 9 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 7 June 2026 | 4 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 March 2026 | 3 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2563 runs late
Carrier accounts for 62% of the 2,529 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 62%Carrier
- 28%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,573 of the 2,529 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,529 delay minutes reported on AA 2563.
Cancellations run at 3.90%, against 1.89% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 333 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. 333 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: 3.90% of its 333 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- AUS to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to AUS, the return direction
- Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS) delay statistics
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.