Flight number record
AA 1090
American Airlines · Tulsa to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- TUL → DFW
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 268
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1090, check with American Airlines.
AA 1090 earns an A−. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 268 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1090's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 126 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 255 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.85%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 268 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 1090 flies
AA 1090 flies TUL to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 184 of 268 flights, with 05:00 (53 flights) and 06:02 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:00184 flights68.7%
- Departs 05:0053 flights19.8%
- Departs 06:0231 flights11.6%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1090 runs level with that at 90.2%. 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 1090 next to TUL to DFW
Every carrier on TUL to DFW combined arrived on time 77.8% of the time across 2,848 flights, so AA 1090 is 12 points ahead of it. American flew 1,640 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.0% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1090thin sample | 268 | 90.2% | 77 min | 4.85% | A− |
| All American Airlines on TUL–DFW | 1,640 | 75.0% | 105 min | 3.66% | B− |
| All carriers on TUL–DFW | 2,848 | 77.8% | 93 min | 3.65% | B− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1090 quarter by quarter
AA 1090 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 98.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.3%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 67 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 202555 flights98.0%
- Oct–Dec 202578 flights84.4%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights95.0%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights83.3%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1090 ranged from 85.7% on Saturday to 94.7% on Thursday. With about 38 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why AA 1090 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 1,936 reported delay minutes.
- 39%Carrier
- 31%Extreme weather
- 30%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 31% 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 5.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,936 delay minutes reported on AA 1090.
Cancellations run at 4.85%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.3% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including DEN to DFW (77), DFW to SLC (8) and SLC to DFW (6), but none flew often enough under AA 1090 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to TUL to DFW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 268 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 1090
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1090: 4.85% of its 268 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
- TUL to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to TUL, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) 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
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.