Flight number record

AA 2617

American Airlines · Washington to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: IAD → DFW
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 335
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2617, check with American Airlines.

AA 2617 lands a B−, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 335 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 2617's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 57 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 318 completed flights

Avg delay

100 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.18%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

6.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 335 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When AA 2617 flies

AA 2617 flies IAD to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 90 of 335 flights, with 06:27 (64 flights) and 07:00 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:0090 flights26.9%
Departs 06:2764 flights19.1%
Departs 07:0044 flights13.1%

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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2617 runs 6 points worse at 83.3%. 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 2617 next to IAD to DFW

Every carrier on IAD to DFW combined arrived on time 77.1% of the time across 1,928 flights, so AA 2617 is 6 points ahead of it. American flew 844 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 9 points.

AA 2617 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2617thin sample	335	83.3%	100 min	4.18%	B−
All American Airlines on IAD–DFW	844	73.3%	108 min	3.67%	C−
All carriers on IAD–DFW	1,928	77.1%	104 min	2.23%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2617 quarter by quarter

AA 2617 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 90.4% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 78.2%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 84 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 flights84.5%
Oct–Dec 202564 flights79.7%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights90.4%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights78.2%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2617 did best on Sunday at 88.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 74.5%. 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 2617 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 75% of the 5,314 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
75%
Late-arriving aircraft
15%
National Airspace System
9%
Extreme weather
1%

The largest share of delay minutes, 75%, 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 3,983 of the 5,314 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,314 delay minutes reported on AA 2617.

Cancellations run at 4.18%, against 1.81% 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

6.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,172 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.

The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including IND to MIA (15), MIA to IND (15) and LGA to MIA (12), but none flew often enough under AA 2617 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to IAD to DFW only.

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 2617

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2617: 4.18% of its 335 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.

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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