Flight number record
AA 1214
American Airlines · Salt Lake City to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- SLC → DFW
- Departs
- 05:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 13 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1214's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 133 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 1.81%
1 hour+ late
2.8%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 15 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 1214 flies
AA 1214 flies SLC to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:00, used on 85 of 365 flights, with 08:20 (54 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 05:0085 flights23.3%
- Departs 08:2054 flights14.8%
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 05:00 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.
Against the route
AA 1214 next to SLC to DFW
Every carrier on SLC to DFW combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 3,869 flights, so AA 1214 is 12 points ahead of it. American flew 2,213 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.5% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 17 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 | 2,213 | 77.5% | 103 min | 3.43% | B− |
| All carriers on SLC–DFW | 3,869 | 78.6% | 90 min | 2.58% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1214 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1214 held fairly steady: 95.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 85.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 93.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights95.6%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights85.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights89.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights93.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1214 ranged from 84.6% on Friday to 96.2% on Tuesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why AA 1214 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 70% of the 2,426 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.
- 70%Carrier
- 20%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. 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 1,689 of the 2,426 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,426 delay minutes reported on AA 1214.
Cancellations run at 2.74%, against 1.81% 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 8.1% 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 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. 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.
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 route74.4%
- Delta Air Lines 2800 on the same route83.8%
- American Airlines 2195 on the same route86.9%
- American Airlines 1456 on the same route59.2%
- American Airlines 2066 on the same route74.6%
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
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- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.