AA1623

AA1623 arrived on time 88.3% of the time, against 74.5% for all DFW → DCA flights, so this departure is 13.8 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 13.8 points better.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 621 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA1623 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.

88.3% on time for this specific departure, against 74.5% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 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.

AA1623 has cancelled 1.13% of its scheduled departures (7 of 621), against 2.56% for all DFW → DCA flights — this specific departure cancels 1.4 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 AA1623 specifically, not about the route it flies.

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

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1623 on DFW → DCA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

AA1623 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 9.3 hours on the ground at DFW, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA1623 pushed back an average of 4 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 1 minute late.

Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into DFW just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 433 of 614 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 November 2023 – July 2026

AA1623 pushes back an average of 4.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at DCA an average of 4.9 minutes early. The 9.1 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 18.7 minutes on the taxiways at DFW, 1.2 minutes shorter than a typical DFW departure in the same hour.

On arrival at DCA, AA1623 spends 5.0 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 2.6 minutes shorter than a typical DCA arrival (7.6 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 DCA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 62,158 departures from DFW scheduled in the clock hour AA1623 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at DCA (435,126 flights), not just AA1623’s own. More on taxi time.

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

AA1623 is scheduled out of DFW at 7:00 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from DFW in that hour arrive on time 85.2% of the time against 73.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 12.1 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from DFW 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 · November 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 AA1623 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

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

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA1623 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.

• AA1177 DFW→DCA American Airlines on the same route, departs 8:32 AM, on time 84.6%
• AA472 DFW→DCA American Airlines on the same route, departs 5:02 PM, on time 59.8%
• AA2752 DFW→DCA American Airlines on the same route, departs 7:10 PM, on time 63.6%
• AA402 DFW→PHL American Airlines flight out of DFW, DFW to PHL, departs 8:30 AM, on time 83.8%