Flight number record
AA 2653
American Airlines · Fresno to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- FAT → DFW
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2653, check with American Airlines.
AA 2653 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2653's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 116 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.01%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2653 flies
AA 2653 flies FAT to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 163 of 365 flights, with 06:05 (78 flights) and 06:16 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00163 flights44.7%
- Departs 06:0578 flights21.4%
- Departs 06:1637 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 2653 runs level with that at 88.9%. 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 2653 next to FAT to DFW
Every carrier on FAT to DFW combined arrived on time 80.9% of the time across 1,351 flights, so AA 2653 is 8 points ahead of it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2653 | 365 | 88.9% | 85 min | 3.01% | A− |
| All American Airlines on FAT–DFW | 1,351 | 80.9% | 94 min | 2.81% | B |
| All carriers on FAT–DFW | 1,351 | 80.9% | 94 min | 2.81% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2653 quarter by quarter
AA 2653 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 93.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 83.3%, a swing of 10 points on roughly 73 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 flights83.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights90.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.3%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, AA 2653 did best on Monday at 96.1% on time and worst on Saturday at 83.3%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2653 runs when it is late
AA 2653 often beats the schedule: 117 of 351 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 39 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early117 flights33.3%
- Within 15 min195 flights55.6%
- 15–29 min late16 flights4.6%
- 30–59 min late10 flights2.8%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 351 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 38 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2653
The latest arrival of the period was on 8 January 2026, 16 hours 21 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 8 January 2026 | 16 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 June 2026 | 3 hours 43 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 4 September 2025 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 January 2026 | 3 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 17 March 2026 | 2 hours 28 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why AA 2653 runs late
Carrier accounts for 65% of the 3,298 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 65%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 14%Late-arriving aircraft
- 7%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 65%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,158 of the 3,298 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,298 delay minutes reported on AA 2653.
Cancellations run at 3.01%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.7% 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.
The 1,313 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 365 flights under AA 2653 in the data flew FAT 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 2653
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2653: 3.01% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- FAT to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to FAT, the return direction
- 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.