Flight number record
AA 3006
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Ontario
- Route
- DFW → ONT
- Departs
- 17:21
- Flights
- 306
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 3006, check with American Airlines.
AA 3006 draws a D. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 306 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 3006 runs 18 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 176 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
60.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 300 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.96%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
18.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 306 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.0% 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 3006 flies
AA 3006 flies DFW to ONT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:21, used on 53 of 306 flights, with 17:06 (44 flights) and 17:50 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 17:2153 flights17.3%
- Departs 17:0644 flights14.4%
- Departs 17:5037 flights12.1%
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 17:21 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and AA 3006 runs 8 points worse at 60.0%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
AA 3006 next to DFW to ONT
Every carrier on DFW to ONT combined arrived on time 68.9% of the time across 2,306 flights, so AA 3006 is 9 points behind it. American flew 1,984 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 66.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 3006thin sample | 306 | 60.0% | 83 min | 1.96% | D |
| All American Airlines on DFW–ONT | 1,984 | 66.9% | 66 min | 2.92% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–ONT | 2,306 | 68.9% | 66 min | 2.91% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 3006 quarter by quarter
AA 3006 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 40.7%, a swing of 36 points on roughly 77 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 flights40.7%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights64.4%
- Jan–Mar 202673 flights77.1%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights63.3%
Scale runs 30% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 3006 did best on Monday at 66.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 48.8%. Each day rests on about 44 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 3006 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 9,920 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.
- 64%Late-arriving aircraft
- 27%Carrier
- 5%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
64% 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 9,920 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 20 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 9,920 delay minutes reported on AA 3006.
Cancellations sit at 1.96% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 18.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,188 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 one other city pair in the data, including AVL to DFW (40), but none flew often enough under AA 3006 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to ONT only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 306 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 3006
For a booking, AA 3006 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 18.0% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to ONT, every carrier and departure
- ONT to DFW, the return direction
- American Airlines 2635 on the same route82.0%
- American Airlines 1820 on the same route76.6%
- 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
- 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.