Flight Reliability
AA 1561 · American Airlines
Grand Rapids → Dallas–Fort Worth (GRR–DFW)
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A Little Dicey
WanderNerd Reliability Score
- 74%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 30 min
- Average arrival delay
- 2.7%
- Cancelled
- 4 min early
- Median arrival delay
Based on 365 historical flights. Data through May 2026.
What the data says
Saturdays have been rough.
AA 1561 arrived on time 80% of the time on Wednesdays and just 63% on Saturdays. That gap is worth planning around.
A bit ahead of the GRR–DFW route.
AA 1561 arrived on time 74% of the time, versus 68% across the GRR–DFW route.
Trending in the right direction.
AA 1561 arrived on time 79% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 58% in the three months before that.
The breakdown
- Mon70%(50 flights)
- Tue76%(50 flights)
- Wed80%(51 flights)
- Thu75%(52 flights)
- Fri75%(51 flights)
- Sat63%(49 flights)
- Sun76%(50 flights)
- 3–6 AM—(4 flights)
- 6–9 AM73%(349 flights)
83%
May
Jun 77% → May 83% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 77% | 30 |
| July 2025 | 80% | 30 |
| August 2025 | 80% | 30 |
| September 2025 | 79% | 28 |
| October 2025 | 83% | 30 |
| November 2025 | 75% | 28 |
| December 2025 | 55% | 31 |
| January 2026 | 50% | 28 |
| February 2026 | 68% | 28 |
| March 2026 | 73% | 30 |
| April 2026 | 80% | 30 |
| May 2026 | 83% | 30 |
- Departures on time
- 79%
- Diverted
- 0.5%
- Flights flown
- 353
- Months covered
- 12
Same route, other flights
Keep nerding
Based on 365 historical flights, because apparently we checked. Historical flight data: U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, June 2025 – May 2026. Data through May 2026. How we calculate this.