Flight number record
AA 2597
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Burbank
- Route
- DFW → BUR
- Departs
- 19:40
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2597, check with American Airlines.
AA 2597 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is roughly 55 minutes behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 2597 runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 139 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 352 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.03%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 2597 flies
AA 2597 flies DFW to BUR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:40, used on 81 of 363 flights, with 19:10 (46 flights) and 18:57 (44 flights) next.
- Departs 19:4081 flights22.3%
- Departs 19:1046 flights12.7%
- Departs 18:5744 flights12.1%
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 19:40 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 2597 runs 5 points worse at 63.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AA 2597 next to DFW to BUR
Every carrier on DFW to BUR combined arrived on time 69.3% of the time across 728 flights, so AA 2597 is 6 points behind it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2597thin sample | 363 | 63.4% | 53 min | 3.03% | D− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–BUR | 728 | 69.3% | 56 min | 2.47% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–BUR | 728 | 69.3% | 56 min | 2.47% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2597 quarter by quarter
AA 2597 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 68.9% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 53.5%, a swing of 15 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 202591 flights68.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights66.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights53.5%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights65.6%
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2597 did best on Tuesday at 75.5% on time and worst on Sunday at 50.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2597 runs when it is late
The 129 late arrivals split 46 under half an hour, 48 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 35 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early63 flights17.9%
- Within 15 min160 flights45.5%
- 15–29 min late46 flights13.1%
- 30–59 min late48 flights13.6%
- 1–2 hours late28 flights8.0%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 352 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
37 of 155 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2597
The latest arrival of the period was on 14 February 2026, 3 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 14 February 2026 | 3 hours 48 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 2 June 2026 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 January 2026 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 July 2026 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 May 2026 | 2 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 2597 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 45% of the 6,802 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 45%Late-arriving aircraft
- 40%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
45% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,802 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 to one. The split is drawn from 6,802 delay minutes reported on AA 2597.
Cancellations run at 3.03%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
9.9% 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 1,231 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 363 flights under AA 2597 in the data flew DFW to BUR. 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. 363 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 2597
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2597: 3.03% of its 363 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs roughly 55 minutes, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to BUR, every carrier and departure
- BUR to DFW, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Hollywood Burbank (BUR) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
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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.