AA2003

AA2003 arrived on time 60.3% of the time, against 71.5% for all DFW → SEA flights, so this departure is 11.2 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 9.9 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 609 operations, November 2023 – July 2026 · If AA2003 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

AA2003 has cancelled 2.79% of its scheduled departures (17 of 609), against 1.70% for all DFW → SEA flights — this specific departure cancels 1.1 percentage points more 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 AA2003 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 AA2003 on DFW → SEA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

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

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2003 pushed back an average of 45 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 13 minutes 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, 548 of 592 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

AA2003 pushes back an average of 23.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at SEA an average of 19.6 minutes late. The 4.2 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 20.6 minutes on the taxiways at DFW, 1.4 minutes longer than a typical DFW departure in the same hour.

On arrival at SEA, AA2003 spends 12.4 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 SEA 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 SEA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 59,301 departures from DFW scheduled in the clock hour AA2003 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at SEA (510,187 flights), not just AA2003’s own. More on taxi time.

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

AA2003 is scheduled out of DFW at 6:50 PM, in the 6 PM–7 PM bank. Departures from DFW in that hour arrive on time 64.2% of the time against 73.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 8.9 points worse 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 AA2003 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. AA2003 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.

• AA2009 DFW→SEA American Airlines on the same route, departs 5:05 PM, on time 66.3%
• AS415 DFW→SEA Alaska Airlines on the same route, departs 3:19 PM, on time 76.1%
• AS543 DFW→SEA Alaska Airlines on the same route, departs 8:00 AM, on time 72.7%