Flight number record
AA 802
American Airlines · Raleigh to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- RDU → DFW
- Departs
- 07:33
- Flights
- 258
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 802, check with American Airlines.
AA 802 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 258 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 802's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 246 completed flights
Avg delay
89 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.88%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 258 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 802 flies
AA 802 flies RDU to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:33, used on 38 of 258 flights, with 07:14 (32 flights) and 07:03 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:3338 flights14.7%
- Departs 07:1432 flights12.4%
- Departs 07:0332 flights12.4%
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 07:33 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 802 runs 4 points worse at 85.4%. 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 802 next to RDU to DFW
Every carrier on RDU to DFW combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 2,278 flights, so AA 802 is 8 points ahead of it. American flew 2,012 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.1% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 802thin sample | 258 | 85.4% | 89 min | 3.88% | A− |
| All American Airlines on RDU–DFW | 2,012 | 78.1% | 88 min | 2.93% | B |
| All carriers on RDU–DFW | 2,278 | 77.6% | 85 min | 2.94% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 802 quarter by quarter
AA 802 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 95.7% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 76.9%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 65 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 202543 flights76.9%
- Oct–Dec 202585 flights81.9%
- Jan–Mar 202682 flights87.0%
- Apr–Jun 202648 flights95.7%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 802 did best on Monday at 94.6% on time and worst on Tuesday at 78.4%. Each day rests on about 37 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 802 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 83% of the 3,219 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.
- 83%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 2%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 83%, 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 2,663 of the 3,219 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,219 delay minutes reported on AA 802.
Cancellations run at 3.88%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.9% 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 1,061 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 258 flights under AA 802 in the data flew RDU to DFW. 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. 258 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 802
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 802: 3.88% of its 258 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- RDU to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to RDU, the return direction
- American Airlines 1217 on the same route83.0%
- American Airlines 2693 on the same route68.7%
- Raleigh-Durham International (RDU) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) 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
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.