Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2456
Indianapolis (IND) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 2:25 PM – 3:55 PM
How AA2456 performs
836 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on IND → DFW, AA2456 averaged about 5 operations a week (836 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
AA2456 arrived on time 75.9% of the time, against 78.4% for all IND → DFW flights, so this departure is 2.5 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 2.9 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 836 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2456 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA2456 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2456 | 75.9% | 1.79% | -6 min | 10.6% | 836 |
| American Airlines on IND → DFW | 78.8% | 2.08% | -8 min | 8.6% | 5,808 |
| All IND → DFW flights | 78.4% | 2.06% | -8 min | 8.8% | 6,208 |
AA2456 cancelled 15 of 836 operations (1.79%), close to the 2.06% for IND → DFW.
10.6% of AA2456’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 8.8% across IND → DFW, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
Why AA2456 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 AA2456 on IND → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA2456 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2456 pushed back an average of 68 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 4 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into IND: 762 of 821 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA2456 | 19% | 90% | 10% |
| Network, same turn | 18% | 85% | 10% |
51 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 45 to 59 minutes. How often AA2456’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA2456 left 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s.
Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft ranks the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves IND late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
AA2456 pushes back an average of 19.2 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 12.4 minutes late. The 6.8 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. Its 15.3 minutes on the taxiways at IND is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at DFW, AA2456 spends 13.8 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 8,172 IND 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 · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves IND
AA2456 has one departure time, 2:25 PM, so this is what that hour at IND is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 8,172 departures from IND are scheduled in the 2 PM–3 PM hour over the period, against 151,043 across the whole day.
AA2456 is scheduled out of IND at 2:25 PM, in the 2 PM–3 PM bank. Departures from IND in that hour arrive on time 78.6% of the time against 81.8% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 3.2 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from IND, 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 · July 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
By day of week
Does AA2456 run worse on particular days?
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Monday the least, a gap of 11.7 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes AA2456 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA2456 also served these 15 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW→IND Dallas–Fort Worth to Indianapolis | July 1, 2023 – August 31, 2026 | 804 | 81.2% |
| SAN→DFW San Diego to Dallas–Fort Worth | May 21, 2026 – August 4, 2026 | 76 | — |
| OMA→CLT Omaha to Charlotte | April 7, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 43 | — |
| CLT→OMA Charlotte to Omaha | April 8, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 42 | — |
| JFK→AUS New York to Austin | March 8, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 26 | — |
| PHX→AUS Phoenix to Austin | February 12, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 24 | — |
| BWI→CLT Baltimore to Charlotte | December 19, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 17 | — |
| CLT→BWI Charlotte to Baltimore | December 19, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 15 | — |
| ATL→DFW Atlanta to Dallas–Fort Worth | December 3–17, 2025 | 15 | — |
| DFW→ATL Dallas–Fort Worth to Atlanta | December 3–17, 2025 | 15 | — |
| ORD→PHL Chicago to Philadelphia | November 20, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 10 | — |
| PHL→ORD Philadelphia to Chicago | November 20, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 10 | — |
| ORD→DFW Chicago to Dallas–Fort Worth | November 2–19, 2025 | 18 | — |
| DFW→MSN Dallas–Fort Worth to Madison | August 20, 2023 | 1 | — |
| MSN→DFW Madison to Dallas–Fort Worth | August 20, 2023 | 1 | — |
The figures above describe only IND → DFW, the route AA2456 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
65 min late
against a median of 6 min early
AA2456 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 6 min early, but the worst tenth are 71 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 836 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2782 | American Airlines | 87.4% | 10 min early | 843 |
| AA1506 | American Airlines | 83.5% | 11 min early | 968 |
| AA1296 | American Airlines | 82.8% | 8 min early | 882 |
| AA2456 this flight | American Airlines | 75.9% | 6 min early | 836 |
| AA1505 | American Airlines | 68.4% | 1 min early | 642 |
Among all 5 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA2456 has the 4th highest on-time rate, 11.5 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 836 records of AA2456 operating IND → 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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