Flight number record
AA 1108
American Airlines · Detroit to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- DTW → DFW
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 269
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1108, check with American Airlines.
AA 1108 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 roughly 55 minutes. That rests on 269 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1108's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 261 completed flights
Avg delay
53 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.23%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 269 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 1108 flies
AA 1108 flies DTW to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 39 of 269 flights, with 13:23 (31 flights) and 06:09 (30 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:0039 flights14.5%
- Departs 13:2331 flights11.5%
- Departs 06:0930 flights11.2%
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 1108 runs 4 points worse at 85.4%. 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 1108 next to DTW to DFW
Every carrier on DTW to DFW combined arrived on time 75.3% of the time across 3,509 flights, so AA 1108 is 10 points ahead of it. American flew 1,621 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1108thin sample | 269 | 85.4% | 53 min | 2.23% | A |
| All American Airlines on DTW–DFW | 1,621 | 75.9% | 92 min | 2.71% | B |
| All carriers on DTW–DFW | 3,509 | 75.3% | 76 min | 2.25% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1108 quarter by quarter
AA 1108 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 94.4% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 79.7%, 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 202536 flights94.4%
- Oct–Dec 202558 flights80.7%
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights79.7%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.9%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1108 did best on Monday at 91.9% on time and worst on Friday at 77.1%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1108 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 2,028 reported delay minutes.
- 42%National Airspace System
- 29%Carrier
- 26%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
42% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 848 minutes out of 2,028, against a national NAS share of 21%. The split is drawn from 2,028 delay minutes reported on AA 1108.
Cancellations sit at 2.23% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.74%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% 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 986 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.
The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including DFW to SJC (33), DFW to SLC (28) and DCA to CLT (27), but none flew often enough under AA 1108 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DTW to DFW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 269 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 1108
For a booking, read AA 1108 as 85.4% on time with 2.23% cancelled over 269 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.