Flight number record
AA 1098
American Airlines · Kansas City to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- MCI → DFW
- Departs
- 05:30
- Flights
- 348
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1098, check with American Airlines.
AA 1098 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 about 2.3 hours. That rests on 348 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1098's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 130 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights
Avg delay
140 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.30%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 348 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 1098 flies
AA 1098 flies MCI to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:30, used on 123 of 348 flights, with 05:31 (62 flights) and 05:48 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 05:30123 flights35.3%
- Departs 05:3162 flights17.8%
- Departs 05:4837 flights10.6%
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 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 level with that at 90.3%. 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 1098 next to MCI to DFW
Every carrier on MCI to DFW combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 2,523 flights, so AA 1098 is 12 points ahead of it. American flew 2,020 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.3% 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 1098thin sample | 348 | 90.3% | 140 min | 2.30% | A |
| All American Airlines on MCI–DFW | 2,020 | 78.3% | 93 min | 2.43% | B |
| All carriers on MCI–DFW | 2,523 | 78.6% | 92 min | 2.58% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1098 quarter by quarter
AA 1098 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 98.4% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 86.2%, a swing of 12 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 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202586 flights87.1%
- Jan–Mar 202682 flights92.2%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights86.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights98.4%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1098 did best on Thursday at 96.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 80.4%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 16 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1098 runs when it is late
AA 1098 often beats the schedule: 161 of 339 completed flights, 47%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 33 late arrivals split 10 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 14 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early161 flights47.5%
- Within 15 min145 flights42.8%
- 15–29 min late10 flights2.9%
- 30–59 min late9 flights2.7%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.5%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 339 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 30 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 17% of them. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1098
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 February 2026, 29 hours 16 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 February 2026 | 29 hours 16 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 June 2026 | 6 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 June 2026 | 5 hours 50 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 August 2026 | 3 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 December 2025 | 3 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1098 runs late
Carrier accounts for 80% of the 4,623 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 80%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 5%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 80%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,709 of the 4,623 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,623 delay minutes reported on AA 1098.
Cancellations sit at 2.30% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.29%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.1% 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 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. 348 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, read AA 1098 as 90.3% on time with 2.30% cancelled over 348 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- MCI to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to MCI, the return direction
- Kansas City International (MCI) delay statistics
- 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
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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.