Flight number record
AA 757
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Seattle
- Route
- DFW → SEA
- Departs
- 13:33
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 757, check with American Airlines.
AA 757 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 757 runs 4 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 44 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
73.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
60 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.47%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
8.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.5% 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 757 flies
AA 757 flies DFW to SEA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:33, used on 72 of 364 flights, with 12:25 (70 flights) and 12:30 (68 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 13:3372 flights19.8%
- Departs 12:2570 flights19.2%
- Departs 12:3068 flights18.7%
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 13:33 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 757 runs 6 points worse at 73.2%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 757 next to DFW to SEA
Every carrier on DFW to SEA combined arrived on time 69.5% of the time across 5,232 flights, so AA 757 is 4 points ahead of it. American flew 2,736 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 65.0% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 757thin sample | 364 | 73.2% | 60 min | 2.47% | C |
| All American Airlines on DFW–SEA | 2,736 | 65.0% | 64 min | 2.67% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–SEA | 5,232 | 69.5% | 64 min | 2.12% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 757 quarter by quarter
AA 757 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 76.4% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 65.6%, a swing of 11 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 202592 flights75.8%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights76.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights75.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights65.6%
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 757 did best on Tuesday at 78.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 63.3%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 757 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 49% of the 5,680 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.
- 49%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
49% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 5,680 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 5,680 delay minutes reported on AA 757.
Cancellations sit at 2.47% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.27%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, 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.
AA 757 is not only a DFW to SEA flight. It also flew SEA to DFW (293 flights, 69.9% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 364 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEA to DFWthin sample | 293 | 69.9% | 103 min | 3.41% | C− |
What to do with this
Booking AA 757
For a booking, read AA 757 as 73.2% on time with 2.47% cancelled over 364 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to SEA, every carrier and departure
- SEA to DFW, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 804 on the same route85.0%
- American Airlines 727 on the same route56.5%
- Alaska Airlines 365 on the same route73.4%
- American Airlines 767 on the same route73.2%
- Alaska Airlines 415 on the same route78.2%
- American Airlines 707 on the same route83.2%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
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- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.