Flight number record
AA 2617
American Airlines · Washington to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- IAD → DFW
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 335
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2617, check with American Airlines.
AA 2617 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.1 hours. That rests on 335 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2617's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 73 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
84.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 325 completed flights
Avg delay
126 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.39%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 335 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 07:00 (44 flights) and 06:14 (34 flights) next.
- Departs 06:0090 flights26.9%
- Departs 07:0044 flights13.1%
- Departs 06:1434 flights10.1%
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 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 5 points worse at 84.6%. 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 2617 next to IAD to DFW
Every carrier on IAD to DFW combined arrived on time 76.7% of the time across 1,961 flights, so AA 2617 is 8 points ahead of it. American flew 849 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2617thin sample | 335 | 84.6% | 126 min | 2.39% | B |
| All American Airlines on IAD–DFW | 849 | 74.4% | 114 min | 2.47% | C |
| All carriers on IAD–DFW | 1,961 | 76.7% | 106 min | 1.63% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202564 flights79.7%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights90.4%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights78.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.7%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2617 did best on Thursday at 91.5% on time and worst on Tuesday at 78.3%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2617 runs when it is late
AA 2617 often beats the schedule: 176 of 325 completed flights, 54%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 50 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early176 flights54.2%
- Within 15 min99 flights30.5%
- 15–29 min late16 flights4.9%
- 30–59 min late11 flights3.4%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights2.8%
- 2+ hours late14 flights4.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 325 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 56 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 18 still arrived on time. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2617
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 August 2026, 14 hours 53 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2026 | 14 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 April 2026 | 9 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 August 2026 | 7 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 March 2026 | 6 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 April 2026 | 6 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2617 runs late
Carrier accounts for 78% of the 6,280 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 78%Carrier
- 14%Late-arriving aircraft
- 7%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 78%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 4,896 of the 6,280 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,280 delay minutes reported on AA 2617.
Cancellations sit at 2.39% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.60%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.1 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.
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.
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For a booking, read AA 2617 as 84.6% on time with 2.39% cancelled over 335 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- IAD to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to IAD, the return direction
- United Airlines 2116 on the same route70.1%
- Washington Dulles International (IAD) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) 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.