Flight profile · American Airlines
AA844
Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) to Tampa (TPA) · scheduled 5:19 PM – 8:20 PM
How AA844 performs
672 operations, August 2023 – July 2026.
AA844 arrived on time 63.2% of the time, against 68.4% for all DFW → TPA flights, so this departure is 5.2 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 4.2 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 672 operations, August 2023 – July 2026 · If AA844 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA844 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA844 | 63.2% | 2.53% | 5 min | 15.9% | 672 |
| American Airlines on DFW → TPA | 67.4% | 3.00% | 1 min | 12.7% | 7,661 |
| All DFW → TPA flights | 68.4% | 2.83% | 0 min | 12.2% | 9,075 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · August 2023 – July 2026
Why AA844 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 AA844 on DFW → TPA. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering August 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA844 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA844 came in 15 or more minutes late on 20% 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.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into DFW just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 573 of 655 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.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| AA844 | 20% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 60 to 89 minutes. How often AA844’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering August 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves DFW late, does that still matter by the time it reaches TPA?
On arrival at TPA, AA844 spends 6.5 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 TPA 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 TPA. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 52,089 departures from DFW scheduled in the clock hour AA844 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at TPA (242,635 flights), not just AA844’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · August 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves DFW
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AA844 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 52,089 departures from DFW are scheduled in the 5 PM–6 PM hour over the period, against 961,718 across the whole day.
AA844 is scheduled out of DFW at 5:19 PM, in the 5 PM–6 PM bank. Departures from DFW in that hour arrive on time 65.7% of the time against 73.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.4 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 · August 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA844 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.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCO→DCA Orlando to Washington | February 12, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 24 | — |
| LGA→MCO New York to Orlando | December 18, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 19 | — |
| ORD→PHX Chicago to Phoenix | December 3–17, 2025 | 13 | — |
| ORD→TPA Chicago to Tampa | December 1, 2025 | 1 | — |
| PHX→AUS Phoenix to Austin | April 4, 2024 – November 4, 2024 | 156 | 85.8% |
| AUS→PHX Austin to Phoenix | May 6, 2024 – November 4, 2024 | 121 | 71.7% |
| SAT→LAX San Antonio to Los Angeles | December 5–19, 2023 | 9 | — |
| PIT→ORD Pittsburgh to Chicago | December 10–17, 2023 | 2 | — |
| DFW→PBI Dallas–Fort Worth to West Palm Beach | November 23, 2023 | 1 | — |
| DFW→LBB Dallas–Fort Worth to Lubbock | July 1, 2023 – August 14, 2023 | 44 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA844 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
87 min late
against a median of 5 min late
AA844 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 5 min late, but the worst tenth are 82 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 672 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering August 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA844 this flight | American Airlines | 63.2% | 5 min late | 672 |
| AA2401 | American Airlines | 61.6% | 4 min late | 715 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA844 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.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 672 records of AA844 operating DFW → TPA, 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.
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