Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1696
Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) to Charlotte (CLT) · scheduled 12:19 PM – 3:59 PM
How AA1696 performs
602 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on DFW → CLT, AA1696 averaged about 4 operations a week (602 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA1696 arrived on time 73.3% of the time, against 72.1% for all DFW → CLT flights, so this departure is 1.2 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 1.5 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 602 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA1696 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA1696 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1696 | 73.3% | 0.66% | -5 min | 9.6% | 602 |
| American Airlines on DFW → CLT | 71.8% | 1.79% | -3 min | 10.6% | 11,593 |
| All DFW → CLT flights | 72.1% | 1.79% | -3 min | 10.4% | 12,726 |
AA1696 cancelled 4 of 602 operations (0.66%), below the 1.79% for DFW → CLT; on a count this small the difference is not a finding.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
Why AA1696 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 AA1696 on DFW → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA1696 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA1696 came in 15 or more minutes late on 13% 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.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into DFW: 559 of 598 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| AA1696 | 13% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
66 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often AA1696’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves DFW late, does that still matter by the time it reaches CLT?
AA1696 pushes back an average of 17.3 minutes late and reaches the gate at CLT an average of 11.2 minutes late. The 6.2 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. It spends 17.1 minutes on the taxiways at DFW, 2.3 minutes shorter than a typical DFW departure in the same hour.
On arrival at CLT, AA1696 spends 14.1 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 1.2 minutes longer than a typical CLT arrival (12.8 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 76,797 DFW departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 633,359 arrivals at CLT. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves DFW
AA1696 has one departure time, 12:19 PM, so this is what that hour at DFW is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 76,797 departures from DFW are scheduled in the 12 PM–1 PM hour over the period, against 989,065 across the whole day.
AA1696 is scheduled out of DFW at 12:19 PM, in the 12 PM–1 PM bank. Departures from DFW in that hour arrive on time 78.0% of the time against 73.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 4.9 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from DFW, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA1696 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA1696 also served these 14 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLC→DFW Salt Lake City to Dallas–Fort Worth | February 12, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 54 | — |
| DCA→BOS Washington to Boston | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 37 | — |
| GEG→ORD Spokane to Chicago | December 19, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 18 | — |
| ORF→CLT Norfolk to Charlotte | December 18, 2025 | 1 | — |
| ICT→DFW Wichita to Dallas–Fort Worth | June 5, 2024 – December 17, 2025 | 139 | 81.3% |
| AUS→ORD Austin to Chicago | November 2, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 31 | — |
| MKE→DFW Milwaukee to Dallas–Fort Worth | October 7, 2024 – November 4, 2024 | 29 | — |
| CLT→ILM Charlotte to Wilmington | July 1, 2023 – June 4, 2024 | 103 | 76.7% |
| ILM→CLT Wilmington to Charlotte | July 1, 2023 – June 4, 2024 | 103 | 67.6% |
| PHX→PHL Phoenix to Philadelphia | May 11, 2024 – June 1, 2024 | 4 | — |
| PHX→SLC Phoenix to Salt Lake City | January 8, 2024 – February 14, 2024 | 38 | — |
| SLC→PHX Salt Lake City to Phoenix | January 8, 2024 – February 12, 2024 | 21 | — |
| CLT→DFW Charlotte to Dallas–Fort Worth | December 20, 2023 – January 7, 2024 | 19 | — |
| BOS→PHL Boston to Philadelphia | August 15, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 78 | — |
The figures above describe only DFW → CLT, the route AA1696 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
58 min late
against a median of 5 min early
AA1696 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 5 min early, but the worst tenth are 63 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 602 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA575 | American Airlines | 88.2% | 10 min early | 600 |
| AA1696 this flight | American Airlines | 73.3% | 5 min early | 602 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA1696 has the lowest on-time rate, 14.9 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 602 records of AA1696 operating DFW → CLT, 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 reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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