Flight number record
AA 1056
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to New York
- Route
- DFW → LGA
- Departs
- 08:25
- Flights
- 286
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1056, check with American Airlines.
AA 1056 sits in the middle of the pack with a B−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 286 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 270 completed flights
Avg delay
66 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.55%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 286 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 1056 flies
AA 1056 flies DFW to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:25, used on 60 of 286 flights, with 09:10 (54 flights) and 09:40 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 08:2560 flights21.0%
- Departs 09:1054 flights18.9%
- Departs 09:4037 flights12.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 08:25 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AA 1056 runs 8 points worse at 75.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AA 1056 next to DFW to LGA
Every carrier on DFW to LGA combined arrived on time 66.1% of the time across 6,650 flights, so AA 1056 is 10 points ahead of it. American flew 4,311 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 64.0% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1056thin sample | 286 | 75.6% | 66 min | 4.55% | B− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–LGA | 4,311 | 64.0% | 70 min | 4.80% | D− |
| All carriers on DFW–LGA | 6,650 | 66.1% | 76 min | 5.07% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1056 quarter by quarter
AA 1056 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 83.3% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 59.7%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 72 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202573 flights59.7%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights77.6%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights76.9%
- Jul–Sep 202657 flights83.3%
Scale runs 50% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1056 did best on Wednesday at 90.5% on time and worst on Monday at 59.0%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 32 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1056 runs when it is late
The 66 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 19 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early62 flights23.0%
- Within 15 min142 flights52.6%
- 15–29 min late24 flights8.9%
- 30–59 min late19 flights7.0%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights4.1%
- 2+ hours late12 flights4.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 270 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
16 of 68 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. In the other direction, 14 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at LGA.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1056
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 June 2026, 4 hours 37 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 June 2026 | 4 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 March 2026 | 4 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 January 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 October 2025 | 3 hours 7 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 August 2026 | 2 hours 50 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 1056 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 4,335 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,335 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 4,335 delay minutes reported on AA 1056.
Cancellations run at 4.55%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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
8.5% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,389 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.
AA 1056 is not only a DFW to LGA flight. It also flew LGA to DFW (253 flights, 64.5% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 286 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LGA to DFWthin sample | 253 | 64.5% | 110 min | 3.16% | D− |
What to do with this
Booking AA 1056
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1056: 4.55% of its 286 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to LGA, every carrier and departure
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.