AA9871American Airlines · DFW → ORD
live · 28m ago
Route confirmed American Airlines

AA9871 Dallas-Fort WorthDFW ChicagoORD · 20:50

AA9871 by American Airlines flies from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) to Chicago (ORD).

Right nowNext departure today Operates daily
08:00

scheduled from DFW

The route today

live boards
DFWDallas-Fort WorthOn-time likelyDFW delay board →
ORDChicagoHigh riskORD delay board →
DFW→ORDevery carrier, schedules and on-time historyRoute intelligence →

Weather lens

Weather-conditioned outlook for this flight right now

Measured, 90-day sample
38%Chance of 15+ min delay
0.9%Chance of cancellation
+9 minTypical airport delay in this weather

Driven mainly by ORD (Chicago), currently flying VFR (visual). These figures come from both airports' records under conditions like today's, over the last 90 days.

Pro Flight Search tracking, 90 days · the weather × delay correlation study → · live weather risk by airport →

Tomorrow on this route

Forecast

Dallas-Fort Worth to Chicago with American Airlines · Mon 2 Nov, local date

Outlook: high
Chance a departure leaves 60+ min late
20%1.7× usual

No cancellation outlook here: this airport's board does not publish cancellations reliably.

Forecast: GateWeather · incl. data from ECMWF (CC BY 4.0, modified) · About 13 departures a day on this route with this airline. · Expected values for tomorrow from a forecast model, kept apart from today's measured figures.

When it flies

scheduled departures
061422
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Each mark is a scheduled departure at its origin-local time. Today is highlighted.

Other Dallas-Fort Worth to Chicago flights today

same route · American Airlines
AA1938departs 05:01
AA2999departs 06:00
AA1106departs 07:21
AA328departs 08:30
AA337departs 09:30
AA2124departs 10:58

If AA9871 is cancelled, these are the other American Airlines nonstop flights from Dallas-Fort Worth to Chicago on the same day, with scheduled departure times in DFW local time. Most flights that show a delay still operate. Rebooking usually helps only when that delay is very large. Every airline on this route →

How AA9871 actually runs

Pro Flight Search has tracked every published board update for AA9871 across the DFW and ORD boards: schedule changes, gate pushes and actual clocks. Early read: no clear pattern yet. Only 1 completed leg so far: landed +20 min. Not enough to call it.

The verdict above is that record speaking, so it reflects how AA9871 operates rather than what the timetable promises. Numbers refresh as new flights operate.

Technical record

How this operation is measured

board clocks

Board log

scheduled → actual, per operation
10-21DFW ORD 20:50 21:10 (+20)

Board clocks recorded as DFW and ORD published them.

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