Flight number record
AA 1214
American Airlines · Salt Lake City to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- SLC → DFW
- Departs
- 05:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1214, check with American Airlines.
AA 1214 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1214's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 136 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 353 completed flights
Avg delay
76 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.74%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 1214 flies
AA 1214 flies SLC to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:00, used on 147 of 365 flights, with 08:20 (54 flights) next.
- Departs 05:00147 flights40.3%
- Departs 08:2054 flights14.8%
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 05:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1214 runs level with that at 90.9%. 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 1214 next to SLC to DFW
Every carrier on SLC to DFW combined arrived on time 79.8% of the time across 3,870 flights, so AA 1214 is 11 points ahead of it. American flew 2,202 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.7% 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 1214 | 365 | 90.9% | 76 min | 2.74% | A |
| All American Airlines on SLC–DFW | 2,202 | 78.7% | 105 min | 2.82% | B |
| All carriers on SLC–DFW | 3,870 | 79.8% | 89 min | 2.20% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1214 quarter by quarter
AA 1214 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 96.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 85.7%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights85.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights89.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights93.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights96.7%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1214 ranged from 86.5% on Friday to 94.2% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1214 runs when it is late
AA 1214 often beats the schedule: 191 of 353 completed flights, 54%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 18 of the 32 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 10 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early191 flights54.1%
- Within 15 min130 flights36.8%
- 15–29 min late18 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late4 flights1.1%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late3 flights0.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 353 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 24 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 8 still arrived on time. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1214
The latest arrival of the period was on 2 December 2025, 12 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in December 2025.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 2 December 2025 | 12 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 January 2026 | 5 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 December 2025 | 3 hours 37 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 19 January 2026 | 1 hour 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 1 hour 51 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1214 runs late
Carrier accounts for 70% of the 2,434 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 70%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 9%Late-arriving aircraft
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,704 of the 2,434 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,434 delay minutes reported on AA 1214.
Cancellations run at 2.74%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.8% 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 989 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.
Every one of the 365 flights under AA 1214 in the data flew SLC to DFW. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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 1214
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1214: 2.74% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- SLC to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to SLC, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 2796 on the same route77.9%
- Delta Air Lines 2800 on the same route83.6%
- American Airlines 2195 on the same route89.0%
- American Airlines 1456 on the same route63.2%
- Delta Air Lines 2798 on the same route86.2%
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
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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.