Flight number record
AA 1090
American Airlines · Tulsa to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- TUL → DFW
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 266
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 266 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1090's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 129 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 254 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.51%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 266 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 10 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.
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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 182 of 266 flights, with 05:00 (53 flights) and 06:02 (31 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00182 flights68.4%
- Departs 05:0053 flights19.9%
- Departs 06:0231 flights11.7%
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 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.
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Against the route
AA 1090 next to TUL to DFW
Every carrier on TUL to DFW combined arrived on time 79.1% of the time across 2,751 flights, so AA 1090 is 11 points ahead of it. American flew 1,606 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1090thin sample | 266 | 90.2% | 83 min | 4.51% | A− |
| All American Airlines on TUL–DFW | 1,606 | 76.7% | 111 min | 3.18% | B− |
| All carriers on TUL–DFW | 2,751 | 79.1% | 97 min | 3.09% | B− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1090 quarter by quarter
AA 1090 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 95.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 83.3%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 89 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 202578 flights84.4%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights95.0%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights83.3%
- Jul–Sep 202623 flights—
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1090 ranged from 83.3% on Saturday to 94.7% on Thursday. With about 38 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1090 runs when it is late
AA 1090 often beats the schedule: 86 of 254 completed flights, 34%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 25 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 3 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early86 flights33.9%
- Within 15 min143 flights56.3%
- 15–29 min late10 flights3.9%
- 30–59 min late3 flights1.2%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights2.4%
- 2+ hours late6 flights2.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 254 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
4 of 22 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 7 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1090
The latest arrival of the period was on 7 March 2026, 5 hours 2 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across March, April, December and August, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2026 | 5 hours 2 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 15 April 2026 | 3 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 December 2025 | 3 hours 11 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 22 August 2026 | 2 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 April 2026 | 2 hours 29 minutes | National Airspace System |
Delay causes
Why AA 1090 runs late
Carrier accounts for 44% of the 2,069 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Carrier
- 29%Extreme weather
- 27%National Airspace System
Extreme weather accounts for 29% 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 4.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,069 delay minutes reported on AA 1090.
Cancellations run at 4.51%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 four other city pairs in the data, including DEN to DFW (76), 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. 266 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: 4.51% of its 266 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.