Flight profile · American Airlines
AA700
Houston (IAH) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 6:00 AM – 7:24 AM
How AA700 performs
625 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on IAH → DFW, AA700 averaged about 4 operations a week (625 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA700 arrived on time 86.3% of the time, against 73.4% for all IAH → DFW flights, so this departure is 12.9 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 12.9 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 625 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA700 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How AA700 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 96% of 12,152 comparable flight numbers.
86.3% on time for this specific departure, against 73.4% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.
Where AA700 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA700 | 86.3% | 4.00% | -6 min | 7.3% | 625 |
| American Airlines on IAH → DFW | 73.4% | 3.27% | -4 min | 12.8% | 7,871 |
| All IAH → DFW flights | 73.4% | 2.65% | -4 min | 11.5% | 17,405 |
AA700 has cancelled 4.00% of its scheduled departures (25 of 625), against 2.65% for all IAH → DFW flights — this specific departure cancels 1.4 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 AA700 specifically, not about the route it flies.
7.3% of AA700’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 11.5% across IAH → 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 AA700 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA700 on IAH → 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 AA700 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
AA700 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 7.6 hours on the ground at IAH, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA700 pushed back an average of 21 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 7 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into IAH: 585 of 600 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA700 | 42% | 14% | 7% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less here than on a same-day turn.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often AA700’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA700 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves IAH late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
AA700 pushes back an average of 15.6 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 13.0 minutes late. The 2.5 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 IAH, 2.0 minutes longer than a typical IAH departure in the same hour.
On arrival at DFW, AA700 spends 14.6 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 1.1 minutes longer than a typical DFW arrival (13.6 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 14,545 IAH 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 IAH
AA700 has one departure time, 6:00 AM, so this is what that hour at IAH is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 14,545 departures from IAH are scheduled in the 6 AM–7 AM hour over the period, against 369,255 across the whole day.
AA700 is scheduled out of IAH at 6:00 AM, in the 6 AM–7 AM bank. Departures from IAH in that hour arrive on time 88.4% of the time against 77.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 10.9 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from IAH, 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 AA700 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA700 also served these 3 other city pairs in the period.
The figures above describe only IAH → DFW, the route AA700 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
26 min late
against a median of 6 min early
Percentiles over 625 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA700 this flight | American Airlines | 86.3% | 6 min early | 625 |
| AA2551 | American Airlines | 84.6% | 6 min early | 945 |
| UA1949 | United Airlines | 69.5% | 2 min late | 693 |
Among all 3 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA700 has the highest on-time rate. 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 625 records of AA700 operating IAH → 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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