Flight profile · American Airlines
AA102
Honolulu (HNL) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 7:00 PM – 7:00 AM
How AA102 performs
790 operations, September 2023 – July 2026.
AA102 arrived on time 83.0% of the time, against 85.4% for all HNL → DFW flights, so this departure is 2.4 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 2.4 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 790 operations, September 2023 – July 2026 · If AA102 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA102 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA102 | 83.0% | 0.89% | -11 min | 4.7% | 790 |
| American Airlines on HNL → DFW | 85.4% | 0.86% | -14 min | 5.3% | 1,976 |
| All HNL → DFW flights | 85.4% | 0.86% | -14 min | 5.3% | 1,976 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
Why AA102 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA102 on HNL → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA102 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA102 pushed back an average of 26 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 5 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into HNL just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 780 of 783 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA102 | 27% | 25% | 8% |
| Network, same turn | 33% | 24% | 11% |
The schedule leaves a long gap on the ground, which gives a late aircraft room to catch up before this flight pushes back.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 3 to 6 hours. How often AA102’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA102 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves HNL late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
AA102 pushes back an average of 11.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 1.3 minutes late. The 10.0 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 19.7 minutes on the taxiways at HNL, 4.6 minutes longer than a typical HNL departure in the same hour.
On arrival at DFW, AA102 spends 9.6 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is 4.0 minutes shorter than a typical DFW arrival (13.5 min).
Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached DFW. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 8,409 departures from HNL scheduled in the clock hour AA102 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at DFW (961,642 flights), not just AA102’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves HNL
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AA102 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 8,409 departures from HNL are scheduled in the 7 PM–8 PM hour over the period, against 186,300 across the whole day.
AA102 is scheduled out of HNL at 7:00 PM, in the 7 PM–8 PM bank. Departures from HNL in that hour arrive on time 85.5% of the time against 85.3% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour AA102 leaves in is an ordinary one for HNL and explains nothing about its record either way.
The two airport figures cover every departure from HNL to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA102 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| JFK→LAX New York to Los Angeles | September 7, 2024 – October 5, 2024 | 5 | — |
| DCA→JAX Washington to Jacksonville | May 6, 2024 – June 4, 2024 | 30 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA102 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
29 min late
against a median of 11 min early
Percentiles over 790 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 790 records of AA102 operating HNL → DFW, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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