Flight history · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · US DOT on-time records
AA 972 · Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) → Austin (AUS)
Sold by American. Still flying: 55 of the last 56 days (Daily).
Arrives on time61%within 15 minutes, of 207 flights
Cancelled4.8%of scheduled flights
An hour or more late20%of flights that operated
When late, on average85 minlate, among flights 15+ min late
Schedule
Typical times in the Jun 6 – Jul 31, 2026 schedule, local at each airport.
- Leaves DFW
- 21:35
- Arrives AUS
- 22:39
- Flight time
- 1h 04m
- Days flown, last 8 weeks
- 55 of 56
Each square is a day, Sat Jun 6 to Fri Jul 31, two weeks per row (each column is the same weekday); filled = flew.
How late it arrives
Share of flights that operated arriving more than this late.
Horizontal: minutes late at arrival (0 to 3 hours). Vertical: share of flights later than that.
Its hour at DFW
All flights leaving Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) at 9–10 pm, wherever they’re going: 67% left within 15 minutes and 4.2% were cancelled (22,823 flights in the year). Other American flights on this route →
Upcoming forecasts
Our odds that this flight is late or cancelled on the days we publish.