Flight number record
AA 3006
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Ontario
- Route
- DFW → ONT
- Departs
- 17:21
- Flights
- 271
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 271 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 3006 runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 139 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 265 completed flights
Avg delay
68 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.21%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
14.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 271 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 271 flights, with 17:06 (44 flights) and 17:50 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 17:2153 flights19.6%
- Departs 17:0644 flights16.2%
- Departs 17:5037 flights13.7%
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 17:21 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 3006 runs 5 points worse at 63.4%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AA 3006 next to DFW to ONT
Every carrier on DFW to ONT combined arrived on time 71.7% of the time across 2,274 flights, so AA 3006 is 8 points behind it. American flew 1,940 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 69.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 3006thin sample | 271 | 63.4% | 68 min | 2.21% | D |
| All American Airlines on DFW–ONT | 1,940 | 69.7% | 66 min | 2.42% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–ONT | 2,274 | 71.7% | 65 min | 2.24% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | 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 Apr–Jun 2026 at 63.3%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 90 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 202591 flights64.4%
- Jan–Mar 202673 flights77.1%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights63.3%
- Jul–Sep 202627 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 3006 did best on Monday at 70.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 55.6%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 3006 runs when it is late
The 97 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 28 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 38 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early48 flights18.1%
- Within 15 min120 flights45.3%
- 15–29 min late31 flights11.7%
- 30–59 min late28 flights10.6%
- 1–2 hours late19 flights7.2%
- 2+ hours late19 flights7.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 265 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
26 of 111 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 3006
The latest arrival of the period was on 10 May 2026, 3 hours 58 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 10 May 2026 | 3 hours 58 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 1 September 2025 | 3 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 9 January 2026 | 3 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 November 2025 | 3 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 April 2026 | 3 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 3006 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 61% of the 6,617 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 61%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
61% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,617 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 18 to one. The split is drawn from 6,617 delay minutes reported on AA 3006.
Cancellations sit at 2.21% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
14.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection 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.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including AVL to DFW (41) and ONT to DFW (31), 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. 271 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. 14.3% 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
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Ontario International (ONT) 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.