Flight number record

AA 305

American Airlines · Key West to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: EYW → DFW
Departs: 14:31
Flights: 324
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 305, check with American Airlines.

AA 305 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 324 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 305 runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 82 extra late arrivals.

On time

69.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 310 completed flights

Avg delay

96 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.78%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

14.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 324 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.5% 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 305 flies

AA 305 flies EYW to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:31, used on 55 of 324 flights, with 14:29 (44 flights) and 14:21 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 14:3155 flights17.0%
Departs 14:2944 flights13.6%
Departs 14:2141 flights12.7%

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 14:31 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and AA 305 runs 3 points worse at 69.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AA 305 next to EYW to DFW

Every carrier on EYW to DFW combined arrived on time 68.9% of the time across 332 flights, so AA 305 is about level with it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 5 points.

AA 305 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 305thin sample	324	69.4%	96 min	2.78%	C
All American Airlines on EYW–DFWthin sample	332	68.9%	95 min	2.71%	C
All carriers on EYW–DFWthin sample	332	68.9%	95 min	2.71%	C
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 305 quarter by quarter

AA 305 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 75.9% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 64.7%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 81 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 202560 flights68.4%
Oct–Dec 202583 flights67.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights64.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.9%

Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 305 did best on Tuesday at 84.1% on time and worst on Sunday at 52.2%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 32 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 305 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 9,140 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
52%
Carrier
32%
National Airspace System
12%
Extreme weather
4%

52% 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 9,140 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 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 9,140 delay minutes reported on AA 305.

Cancellations run at 2.78%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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

For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 14.5% 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 1,089 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.

Every one of the 324 flights under AA 305 in the data flew EYW 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. 324 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 305

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 305: 2.78% of its 324 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.

Where to go next

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.

Key figures