Flight number record
AA 5
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Honolulu
- Route
- DFW → HNL
- Departs
- 11:55
- Flights
- 352
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 5, check with American Airlines.
AA 5 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 close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 352 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 5 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 74 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights
Avg delay
106 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.14%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
14.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 352 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.8% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 79 of 352 flights, with 11:20 (70 flights) and 11:35 (55 flights) next.
- Departs 11:5579 flights22.4%
- Departs 11:2070 flights19.9%
- Departs 11:3555 flights15.6%
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 11:55 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AA 5 runs 8 points worse at 69.9%. 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 5 next to DFW to HNL
Every carrier on DFW to HNL combined arrived on time 70.0% of the time across 702 flights, so AA 5 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 5thin sample | 352 | 69.9% | 106 min | 1.14% | C |
| All American Airlines on DFW–HNL | 702 | 70.0% | 85 min | 0.85% | C+ |
| All carriers on DFW–HNL | 702 | 70.0% | 85 min | 0.85% | C+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 5 quarter by quarter
AA 5 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 83.9% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 54.4%, a swing of 30 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202579 flights73.1%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights74.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights54.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.9%
Scale runs 45% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 5 ranged from 65.2% on Tuesday to 76.9% on Friday. With about 50 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 5 runs when it is late
AA 5 often beats the schedule: 90 of 345 completed flights, 26%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 104 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 26 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 51 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early90 flights26.1%
- Within 15 min151 flights43.8%
- 15–29 min late27 flights7.8%
- 30–59 min late26 flights7.5%
- 1–2 hours late23 flights6.7%
- 2+ hours late28 flights8.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 345 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
28 of 105 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 27% of them. In the other direction, 27 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at HNL.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 5
The latest arrival of the period was on 20 December 2025, 23 hours 54 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 20 December 2025 | 23 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 September 2025 | 7 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 October 2025 | 6 hours 5 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 May 2026 | 5 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 15 September 2025 | 5 hours 39 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 5 runs late
Carrier accounts for 51% of the 11,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Carrier
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 12%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 51%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,638 of the 11,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 11,011 delay minutes reported on AA 5.
Cancellations sit at 1.14% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.85%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
14.8% 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.
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. 14.8% 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
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL) 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.