Flight number record
AA 305
American Airlines · Key West to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- EYW → DFW
- Departs
- 14:21
- Flights
- 301
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about 2.1 hours behind schedule. That rests on 301 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 305 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 71 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 289 completed flights
Avg delay
128 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.66%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
14.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 301 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 305 flies
AA 305 flies EYW to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:21, used on 76 of 301 flights, with 14:29 (44 flights) and 14:39 (40 flights) next.
- Departs 14:2176 flights25.2%
- Departs 14:2944 flights14.6%
- Departs 14:3940 flights13.3%
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 14:21 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and AA 305 runs level with that at 70.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AA 305 next to EYW to DFW
Every carrier on EYW to DFW combined arrived on time 69.7% of the time across 309 flights, so AA 305 is about level with it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 305thin sample | 301 | 70.2% | 128 min | 2.66% | C |
| All American Airlines on EYW–DFWthin sample | 309 | 69.7% | 125 min | 2.59% | C |
| All carriers on EYW–DFWthin sample | 309 | 69.7% | 125 min | 2.59% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 305 quarter by quarter
AA 305 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 79.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 64.7%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 75 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 20252 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202583 flights67.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights64.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights75.9%
- Jul–Sep 202635 flights79.4%
Scale runs 55% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 305 did best on Tuesday at 83.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 46.3%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 37 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 305 runs when it is late
AA 305 often beats the schedule: 93 of 289 completed flights, 32%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 86 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 43 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early93 flights32.2%
- Within 15 min110 flights38.1%
- 15–29 min late24 flights8.3%
- 30–59 min late19 flights6.6%
- 1–2 hours late16 flights5.5%
- 2+ hours late27 flights9.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 289 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
28 of 102 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. 12 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 305
The latest arrival of the period was on 5 June 2026, 21 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 5 June 2026 | 21 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 July 2026 | 18 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 August 2026 | 18 hours 8 minutes | Carrier |
| 18 February 2026 | 7 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 6 July 2026 | 6 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 305 runs late
Carrier accounts for 46% of the 11,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Carrier
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
42% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 11,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. The split is drawn from 11,001 delay minutes reported on AA 305.
Cancellations run at 2.66%, against 1.89% 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
14.9% 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 1,089 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including PHL to MIA (1), but none flew often enough under AA 305 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to EYW to DFW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 301 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: 2.66% of its 301 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.1 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.