Flight Reliability
AA 500 · American Airlines
Dallas–Fort Worth → Los Angeles (DFW–LAX)
76
Usually Fine
WanderNerd Reliability Score
- 74%
- Arrive within 15 minutes
- 12 min
- Average arrival delay
- 1.1%
- Cancelled
- 6 min early
- Median arrival delay
Based on 178 historical flights. Data through May 2026.
What the data says
Tuesdays have been rough.
AA 500 arrived on time 92% of the time on Sundays and just 60% on Tuesdays. That gap is worth planning around.
Trending in the right direction.
AA 500 arrived on time 84% of the time over the last three months in the data, compared with 63% in the three months before that.
The breakdown
- Mon65%(23 flights)
- Tue60%(25 flights)
- Wed72%(25 flights)
- Thu65%(26 flights)
- Fri81%(26 flights)
- Sat80%(25 flights)
- Sun92%(26 flights)
83%
May
Jun 58% → May 83% on time
| Month | On-time percentage | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 58% | 26 |
| July 2025 | 68% | 31 |
| August 2025 | 65% | 31 |
| September 2025 | 86% | 29 |
| April 2026 | 83% | 24 |
| May 2026 | 83% | 30 |
- Departures on time
- 72%
- Diverted
- 0%
- Flights flown
- 176
- Months covered
- 7
Same route, other flights
Keep nerding
Based on 178 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.