Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1692
Philadelphia (PHL) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 8:35 AM – 11:39 AM
How AA1692 performs
601 operations, November 2023 – July 2026.
AA1692 arrived on time 79.7% of the time, against 76.4% for all PHL → DFW flights, so this departure is 3.3 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.9 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 601 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA1692 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA1692 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1692 | 79.7% | 2.16% | -10 min | 8.2% | 601 |
| American Airlines on PHL → DFW | 77.8% | 2.56% | -8 min | 8.7% | 9,697 |
| All PHL → DFW flights | 76.4% | 2.56% | -8 min | 9.4% | 10,727 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
Why AA1692 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
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 AA1692 on PHL → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA1692 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
AA1692 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 8.4 hours on the ground at PHL, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
The aircraft flying AA1692 came in 15 or more minutes late on 27% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into PHL just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 343 of 588 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 |
|---|---|
| AA1692 | 27% |
| Network, same turn | 29% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less on a turn this long than on a same-day one.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often AA1692’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
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 November 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves PHL late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
AA1692 pushes back an average of 17.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 10.2 minutes late. The 7.7 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 24.2 minutes on the taxiways at PHL, 1.1 minutes longer than a typical PHL departure in the same hour.
On arrival at DFW, AA1692 spends 14.3 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 about what any arrival at DFW spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
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 32,304 departures from PHL scheduled in the clock hour AA1692 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 AA1692’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves PHL
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AA1692 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 32,304 departures from PHL are scheduled in the 8 AM–9 AM hour over the period, against 305,181 across the whole day.
AA1692 is scheduled out of PHL at 8:35 AM, in the 8 AM–9 AM bank. Departures from PHL in that hour arrive on time 84.3% of the time against 76.2% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.0 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from PHL 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.
Other routes AA1692 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.
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA1692 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.
40 min late
against a median of 10 min early
Percentiles over 601 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1692 this flight | American Airlines | 79.7% | 10 min early | 601 |
| AA2533 | American Airlines | 65.7% | 1 min late | 868 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA1692 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.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 601 records of AA1692 operating PHL → 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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