Flight number record
AA 317
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Charlotte
- Route
- DFW → CLT
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 317, check with American Airlines.
AA 317 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 317's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 85 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights
Avg delay
64 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.48%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Schedule
When AA 317 flies
AA 317 flies DFW to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 116 of 363 flights, with 07:30 (59 flights) and 07:08 (54 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:00116 flights32.0%
- Departs 07:3059 flights16.3%
- Departs 07:0854 flights14.9%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 317 runs 3 points worse at 86.1%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
AA 317 next to DFW to CLT
Every carrier on DFW to CLT combined arrived on time 73.7% of the time across 3,882 flights, so AA 317 is 12 points ahead of it. American flew 3,600 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 317thin sample | 363 | 86.1% | 64 min | 2.48% | A |
| All American Airlines on DFW–CLT | 3,600 | 73.4% | 71 min | 2.53% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–CLT | 3,882 | 73.7% | 71 min | 2.58% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 317 quarter by quarter
AA 317 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 91.3% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 77.6%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 91 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 202591 flights88.6%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights91.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.6%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights86.4%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 317 ranged from 80.4% on Monday to 90.2% on Thursday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why AA 317 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 55% of the 3,119 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.
- 55%Carrier
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 55%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 1,719 of the 3,119 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,119 delay minutes reported on AA 317.
Cancellations sit at 2.48% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 935 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 363 flights under AA 317 in the data flew DFW to CLT. 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. 363 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 317
For a booking, read AA 317 as 86.1% on time with 2.48% cancelled over 363 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- DFW to CLT, every carrier and departure
- CLT to DFW, the return direction
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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.