AA1597

AA1597 arrived on time 87.9% of the time, against 74.7% for all LGA → DFW flights, so this departure is 13.2 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 13.3 points better.

AA1597’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 6:00 AM earlier on, and around 6:30 AM more recently — a 30-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 607 operations, September 2023 – July 2026 · If AA1597 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 97% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

87.9% on time for this specific departure, against 74.6% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.

AA1597 has cancelled 1.98% of its scheduled departures (12 of 607), against 3.23% for all LGA → DFW flights — this specific departure cancels 1.3 percentage points less often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about AA1597 specifically, not about the route it flies.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1597 on LGA → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026

AA1597 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 8 hours on the ground at LGA, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA1597 pushed back an average of 1 minute late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 1 minute early.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into LGA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 567 of 595 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.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026

AA1597 pushes back an average of 1.7 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 7.3 minutes early. The 9.0 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. Its 19.8 minutes on the taxiways at LGA is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.

On arrival at DFW, AA1597 spends 15.8 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 2.3 minutes longer 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 32,995 departures from LGA scheduled in the clock hour AA1597 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 AA1597’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026

AA1597 is scheduled out of LGA at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from LGA in that hour arrive on time 91.1% of the time against 78.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 12.8 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from LGA 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.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA1597 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA1597 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.

• DL873 LGA→DFW Delta Air Lines on the same route, departs 7:55 AM, on time 82.4%
• AA1056 LGA→DFW American Airlines on the same route, departs 1:59 PM, on time 70.0%
• F93423 LGA→DFW Frontier Airlines on the same route, departs 10:00 PM, on time 63.2%
• AA2789 JAX→DFW American Airlines flight into DFW, JAX to DFW, departs 6:00 AM, on time 87.1%