Flight number record
AA 2659
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Santa Ana
- Route
- DFW → SNA
- Departs
- 14:25
- Flights
- 278
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2659, check with American Airlines.
AA 2659 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 278 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 271 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.52%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
8.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 278 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When AA 2659 flies
AA 2659 flies DFW to SNA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:25, used on 54 of 278 flights, with 14:40 (53 flights) and 14:43 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 14:2554 flights19.4%
- Departs 14:4053 flights19.1%
- Departs 14:4337 flights13.3%
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 14:25 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and AA 2659 runs 3 points better at 75.6%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 2659 next to DFW to SNA
Every carrier on DFW to SNA combined arrived on time 77.5% of the time across 2,917 flights, so AA 2659 is 2 points behind it. American flew 2,893 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2659thin sample | 278 | 75.6% | 62 min | 2.52% | B |
| All American Airlines on DFW–SNA | 2,893 | 77.6% | 60 min | 3.08% | B− |
| All carriers on DFW–SNA | 2,917 | 77.5% | 61 min | 3.05% | B− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2659 quarter by quarter
AA 2659 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 82.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 67.4%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 93 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 flights67.4%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights77.5%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.8%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2659 did best on Tuesday at 87.2% on time and worst on Friday at 68.4%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2659 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 4,115 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.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 10%Extreme weather
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 4,115 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 4 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 4,115 delay minutes reported on AA 2659.
Cancellations run at 2.52%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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
8.5% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,205 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.
AA 2659 is not only a DFW to SNA flight. It also flew SNA to DFW (269 flights, 77.1% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 278 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNA to DFWthin sample | 269 | 77.1% | 118 min | 5.20% | B− |
What to do with this
Booking AA 2659
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2659: 2.52% of its 278 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to SNA, every carrier and departure
- SNA to DFW, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- John Wayne Airport (SNA) 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.