Flight number record

AA 5

American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Honolulu

Route: DFW → HNL
Departs: 11:55
Flights: 352
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 5, check with American Airlines.

AA 5 draws a D. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is close to two hours behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 352 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 5 runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 139 extra late arrivals.

On time

63.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights

Avg delay

122 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.42%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

18.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 352 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.9% 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 5 flies

AA 5 flies DFW to HNL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:55, used on 78 of 352 flights, with 11:15 (69 flights) and 11:35 (55 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 11:5578 flights22.2%
Departs 11:1569 flights19.6%
Departs 11:3555 flights15.6%

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 11:55 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 5 runs 15 points worse at 63.7%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AA 5 next to DFW to HNL

Every carrier on DFW to HNL combined arrived on time 67.2% of the time across 640 flights, so AA 5 is 4 points behind it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 11 points.

AA 5 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 5thin sample	352	63.7%	122 min	1.42%	D
All American Airlines on DFW–HNL	640	67.2%	101 min	1.09%	C
All carriers on DFW–HNL	640	67.2%	101 min	1.09%	C
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 5 quarter by quarter

AA 5 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 74.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 53.9%, a swing of 21 points on roughly 88 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 flights53.9%
Oct–Dec 202579 flights73.1%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights74.7%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights54.4%

Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 5 did best on Friday at 71.2% on time and worst on Monday at 58.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 5 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 56% of the 15,000 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.

Carrier
56%
Late-arriving aircraft
31%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
3%

The largest share of delay minutes, 56%, 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 8,445 of the 15,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 15,184 delay minutes reported on AA 5.

Cancellations sit at 1.42% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.85%.

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. 18.9% 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.

At 3,784 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.

Every one of the 352 flights under AA 5 in the data flew DFW to HNL. 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. 352 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 5

For a booking, AA 5 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 18.9% 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.

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.

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