Flight number record

AA 1208

American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Burbank

Route: DFW → BUR
Departs: 10:05
Flights: 280
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1208, check with American Airlines.

AA 1208 lands a B, about a point worse than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 280 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.

On time

76.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 273 completed flights

Avg delay

57 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.43%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

8.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 280 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.

Schedule

When AA 1208 flies

AA 1208 flies DFW to BUR without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:05, used on 67 of 280 flights, with 10:10 (41 flights) and 10:53 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 10:0567 flights23.9%
Departs 10:1041 flights14.6%
Departs 10:5337 flights13.2%

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 10:05 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 1208 runs 8 points worse at 76.6%. 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 1208 next to DFW to BUR

Every carrier on DFW to BUR combined arrived on time 67.5% of the time across 729 flights, so AA 1208 is 9 points ahead of it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 2 points.

AA 1208 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1208thin sample	280	76.6%	57 min	1.43%	B
All American Airlines on DFW–BUR	729	67.5%	58 min	2.88%	C
All carriers on DFW–BUR	729	67.5%	58 min	2.88%	C
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1208 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 1208 held fairly steady: 73.9% in Jul–Sep 2025, 76.9% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 80.0% in Jan–Mar 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights73.9%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights76.9%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.0%
Apr–Jun 20266 flights—

Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1208 did best on Tuesday at 89.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 65.8%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 1208 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 44% of the 3,617 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
44%
Late-arriving aircraft
38%
National Airspace System
14%
Extreme weather
3%

38% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 3,617 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 14 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 3,617 delay minutes reported on AA 1208.

Cancellations sit at 1.43% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.07%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

8.4% 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 an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,231 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.

AA 1208 is not only a DFW to BUR flight. It also flew BUR to DFW (279 flights, 72.2% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 280 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.

Other routes flown as AA 1208
Also flown as	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
BUR to DFWthin sample	279	72.2%	71 min	2.87%	C

What to do with this

Booking AA 1208

For a booking, read AA 1208 as 76.6% on time with 1.43% cancelled over 280 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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