Flight number record
AA 1010
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to St. Louis
- Route
- DFW → STL
- Departs
- 21:10
- Flights
- 358
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1010, check with American Airlines.
AA 1010 draws a D−. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 358 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1010 runs 13 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 129 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
64.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 346 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.07%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
15.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 358 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When AA 1010 flies
AA 1010 flies DFW to STL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:10, used on 81 of 358 flights, with 21:05 (48 flights) and 21:16 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 21:1081 flights22.6%
- Departs 21:0548 flights13.4%
- Departs 21:1637 flights10.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 21:10 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 1010 runs 6 points worse at 64.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
AA 1010 next to DFW to STL
Every carrier on DFW to STL combined arrived on time 69.4% of the time across 2,382 flights, so AA 1010 is 5 points behind it. American flew 1,852 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 65.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1010thin sample | 358 | 64.7% | 81 min | 3.07% | D− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–STL | 1,852 | 65.7% | 86 min | 3.29% | C− |
| All carriers on DFW–STL | 2,382 | 69.4% | 83 min | 3.11% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1010 quarter by quarter
AA 1010 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 71.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 60.2%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 90 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202590 flights60.2%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights65.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights71.8%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights61.4%
Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1010 did best on Tuesday at 82.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 52.0%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 31 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1010 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 9,927 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%Carrier
- 21%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 21% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 9,927 delay minutes reported on AA 1010.
Cancellations run at 3.07%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 15.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 550 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including ATL to DCA (1) and DCA to ATL (1), but none flew often enough under AA 1010 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to STL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 358 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking AA 1010
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1010: 3.07% of its 358 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to STL, every carrier and departure
- STL to DFW, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- St. Louis Lambert International (STL) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
A flight number here means American Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.