Flight profile · American Airlines
AA542
Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) to Raleigh–Durham (RDU) · scheduled 8:40 PM – 12:24 AM
How AA542 performs
832 operations, 2023-07-01 to 2026-06-30.
AA542 arrived on time 59.4% of the time, against 69.7% for all DFW → RDU flights — this specific departure is 10.3 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’s own flights on this route it is 9.3 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 832 operations between 2023-07-01 to 2026-06-30
Against the rest of the route
| On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA542 | 59.4% | 3.61% | 7 min | 16.1% | 832 |
| American Airlines on DFW → RDU | 68.7% | 2.10% | -1 min | 11.7% | 6,014 |
| All DFW → RDU flights | 69.7% | 2.11% | -1 min | 11.4% | 6,623 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · 2023-07-01 to 2026-06-30
By day of week
Does AA542 run worse on particular days?
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 16.4 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · 2023-07-01 to 2026-06-30 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes AA542 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 AA542 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 832 records of AA542 operating DFW → RDU, 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.