Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1709
Charlotte (CLT) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 3:00 PM – 4:50 PM
How AA1709 performs
614 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on CLT → DFW, AA1709 averaged about 4 operations a week (614 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA1709 arrived on time 77.4% of the time, against 74.2% for all CLT → DFW flights, so this departure is 3.2 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 2.9 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 614 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA1709 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA1709 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1709 | 77.4% | 1.47% | -5 min | 5.0% | 614 |
| American Airlines on CLT → DFW | 74.5% | 1.77% | -3 min | 8.7% | 11,598 |
| All CLT → DFW flights | 74.2% | 1.89% | -3 min | 8.9% | 12,728 |
AA1709 cancelled 9 of 614 operations (1.47%), close to the 1.89% for CLT → DFW.
5.0% of AA1709’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 8.9% across CLT → DFW, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
Why AA1709 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1709 on CLT → DFW. 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 AA1709 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA1709 came in 15 or more minutes late on 7% 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 CLT: 577 of 605 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 |
|---|---|
| AA1709 | 7% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
65 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 AA1709’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 CLT late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
AA1709 pushes back an average of 10.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 5.2 minutes late. The 5.6 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 17.4 minutes on the taxiways at CLT, 3.3 minutes shorter than a typical CLT departure in the same hour.
On arrival at DFW, AA1709 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.
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 28,091 CLT departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 988,998 arrivals at DFW. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves CLT
AA1709 has one departure time, 3:00 PM, so this is what that hour at CLT is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 28,091 departures from CLT are scheduled in the 3 PM–4 PM hour over the period, against 633,368 across the whole day.
AA1709 is scheduled out of CLT at 3:00 PM, in the 3 PM–4 PM bank. Departures from CLT in that hour arrive on time 70.9% of the time against 74.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 3.7 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from CLT, 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 AA1709 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA1709 also served these 8 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW→CLT Dallas–Fort Worth to Charlotte | April 8, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 37 | — |
| BOS→CLT Boston to Charlotte | April 7, 2026 – May 19, 2026 | 7 | — |
| CLT→BOS Charlotte to Boston | April 7, 2026 – May 19, 2026 | 7 | — |
| DFW→MCO Dallas–Fort Worth to Orlando | July 1, 2023 – April 6, 2026 | 323 | 76.5% |
| MCO→DFW Orlando to Dallas–Fort Worth | July 1, 2023 – April 6, 2026 | 185 | 71.7% |
| CLT→PHX Charlotte to Phoenix | February 12, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 24 | — |
| DFW→PHX Dallas–Fort Worth to Phoenix | December 3, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 34 | — |
| MYR→CLT Myrtle Beach to Charlotte | November 2, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 31 | — |
The figures above describe only CLT → DFW, the route AA1709 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
39 min late
against a median of 5 min early
Percentiles over 614 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 614 records of AA1709 operating CLT → 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 reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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