Flight number record
AA 717
American Airlines · Seattle to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- SEA → DFW
- Departs
- 14:10
- Flights
- 290
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 717, check with American Airlines.
AA 717 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 290 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 717 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 63 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 283 completed flights
Avg delay
87 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.72%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 290 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. On-time means an arrival less than 15 minutes after the scheduled gate time, the same threshold the Department of Transportation uses in its own reports. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and counted separately, which is why the cancellation column matters on its own.
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Schedule
When AA 717 flies
AA 717 flies SEA to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:10, used on 64 of 290 flights, with 14:03 (42 flights) and 13:52 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 14:1064 flights22.1%
- Departs 14:0342 flights14.5%
- Departs 13:5235 flights12.1%
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 14:10 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and AA 717 runs level with that at 71.0%. 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 717 next to SEA to DFW
Every carrier on SEA to DFW combined arrived on time 78.0% of the time across 5,228 flights, so AA 717 is 7 points behind it. American flew 2,736 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 717thin sample | 290 | 71.0% | 87 min | 1.72% | C |
| All American Airlines on SEA–DFW | 2,736 | 76.6% | 94 min | 2.23% | B |
| All carriers on SEA–DFW | 5,228 | 78.0% | 75 min | 1.66% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 717 quarter by quarter
AA 717 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 82.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 51.6%, a swing of 31 points on roughly 73 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.
- Oct–Dec 202553 flights82.7%
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights82.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights67.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights51.6%
Scale runs 45% to 90%.
By weekday, AA 717 did best on Wednesday at 80.5% on time and worst on Friday at 58.1%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 717 runs when it is late
AA 717 often beats the schedule: 92 of 283 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 82 late arrivals split 27 under half an hour, 35 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early92 flights32.5%
- Within 15 min109 flights38.5%
- 15–29 min late27 flights9.5%
- 30–59 min late35 flights12.4%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights3.5%
- 2+ hours late10 flights3.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 283 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 90 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 29 still arrived on time. In the other direction, 21 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 DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 717
The latest arrival of the period was on 27 January 2026, 21 hours 59 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 27 January 2026 | 21 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 August 2026 | 15 hours 25 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 June 2026 | 7 hours 36 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 20 July 2026 | 6 hours 42 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 May 2026 | 5 hours 11 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 717 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 52% of the 7,094 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Late-arriving aircraft
- 33%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
52% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 7,094 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 52 to one. The split is drawn from 7,094 delay minutes reported on AA 717.
Cancellations sit at 1.72% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.69%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 1,660 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including DFW to SEA (223), but none flew often enough under AA 717 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to SEA to DFW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 290 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 717
For a booking, AA 717 is one of the weaker ways to fly SEA to DFW: 7 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
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Where to go next
- SEA to DFW, every carrier and departure
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.