Flight number record

AA 1098

American Airlines · Kansas City to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: MCI → DFW
Departs: 05:30
Flights: 347
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1098, check with American Airlines.

AA 1098 earns an A. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 8 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.1 hours. That rests on 347 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 1098's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 79 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 337 completed flights

Avg delay

128 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.59%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.0%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 347 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 1098 flies

AA 1098 flies MCI to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:30, used on 97 of 347 flights, with 05:48 (37 flights) and 05:25 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:3097 flights28.0%
Departs 05:4837 flights10.7%
Departs 05:2535 flights10.1%

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 05:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1098 runs 4 points worse at 85.5%. 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 1098 next to MCI to DFW

Every carrier on MCI to DFW combined arrived on time 74.5% of the time across 2,537 flights, so AA 1098 is 11 points ahead of it. American flew 1,994 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

AA 1098 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1098thin sample	347	85.5%	128 min	2.59%	A
All American Airlines on MCI–DFW	1,994	73.8%	96 min	3.16%	C−
All carriers on MCI–DFW	2,537	74.5%	93 min	3.23%	C−
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1098 quarter by quarter

AA 1098 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 92.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 77.3%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 87 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 flights77.3%
Oct–Dec 202586 flights87.1%
Jan–Mar 202682 flights92.2%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights86.2%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1098 did best on Thursday at 92.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 75.5%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 1098 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 58% of the 6,265 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.

Carrier
58%
Late-arriving aircraft
26%
National Airspace System
13%
Extreme weather
3%
Security
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 58%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,610 of the 6,265 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,265 delay minutes reported on AA 1098.

Cancellations run at 2.59%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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

5.0% 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 2.1 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on two other city pairs in the data, including PHX to CVG (1) and PHL to TPA (1), but none flew often enough under AA 1098 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MCI to DFW only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 347 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 1098

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1098: 2.59% of its 347 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.1 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

Where to go next

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.

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