Flight number record
AA 1056
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to New York
- Route
- DFW → LGA
- Departs
- 08:30
- Flights
- 286
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1056, check with American Airlines.
AA 1056 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 4 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. 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
73.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 271 completed flights
Avg delay
59 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.55%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
6.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 286 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 3 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
Schedule
When AA 1056 flies
AA 1056 flies DFW to LGA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:30, used on 62 of 286 flights, with 09:10 (54 flights) and 09:40 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 08:3062 flights21.7%
- Departs 09:1054 flights18.9%
- Departs 09:4037 flights12.9%
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 08:30 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 1056 runs 10 points worse at 73.8%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
AA 1056 next to DFW to LGA
Every carrier on DFW to LGA combined arrived on time 67.1% of the time across 6,786 flights, so AA 1056 is 7 points ahead of it. American flew 4,298 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 64.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1056thin sample | 286 | 73.8% | 59 min | 4.55% | C− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–LGA | 4,298 | 64.6% | 70 min | 4.84% | D− |
| All carriers on DFW–LGA | 6,786 | 67.1% | 77 min | 4.82% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1056 quarter by quarter
AA 1056 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 81.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 59.7%, a swing of 21 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 202587 flights81.0%
- Oct–Dec 202573 flights59.7%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights77.6%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights76.9%
Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1056 did best on Wednesday at 88.1% on time and worst on Monday at 52.6%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 35 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1056 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 48% of the 4,172 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.
- 48%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
48% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 4,172 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 12 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 4,172 delay minutes reported on AA 1056.
Cancellations run at 4.55%, against 1.81% 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
6.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says 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. 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.
AA 1056 is not only a DFW to LGA flight. It also flew LGA to DFW (253 flights, 63.5% 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 | 63.5% | 105 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
- LGA to DFW, the return direction
- Frontier Airlines 3424 on the same route62.6%
- Delta Air Lines 869 on the same route68.0%
- Delta Air Lines 461 on the same route88.8%
- Delta Air Lines 878 on the same route77.5%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- LaGuardia (LGA) 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.