Flight number record
AA 2599
American Airlines · Burbank to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- BUR → DFW
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2599, check with American Airlines.
AA 2599 earns an A−. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.4 hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2599's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 133 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
143 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.01%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 2599 flies
AA 2599 is scheduled to leave Burbank (BUR) at 07:00 local time and reach Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) at 12:20. That slot held for 306 of the 365 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 07:00306 flights83.8%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2599 runs level with that at 90.9%. 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 2599 next to BUR to DFW
Every carrier on BUR to DFW combined arrived on time 81.7% of the time across 729 flights, so AA 2599 is 9 points ahead of it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2599 | 365 | 90.9% | 143 min | 3.01% | A− |
| All American Airlines on BUR–DFW | 729 | 81.7% | 91 min | 3.02% | B− |
| All carriers on BUR–DFW | 729 | 81.7% | 91 min | 3.02% | B− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2599 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2599 held fairly steady: 92.1% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.4% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 95.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights92.1%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights87.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights89.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights95.2%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2599 did best on Saturday at 95.8% on time and worst on Wednesday at 80.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2599 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 52% of the 4,585 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.
- 52%Carrier
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 18%Extreme weather
- 10%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 18% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,585 delay minutes reported on AA 2599.
Cancellations run at 3.01%, against 1.81% 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.9% 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.
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. 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.
Every one of the 365 flights under AA 2599 in the data flew BUR 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. 365 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 2599
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2599: 3.01% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.4 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- BUR to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to BUR, the return direction
- American Airlines 1208 on the same route72.2%
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.