Flight number record
AA 1220
American Airlines · West Palm Beach to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- PBI → DFW
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 333
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1220, check with American Airlines.
AA 1220 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 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 333 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1220's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 122 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 323 completed flights
Avg delay
88 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.70%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 333 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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Schedule
When AA 1220 flies
AA 1220 flies PBI to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 158 of 333 flights, with 07:05 (51 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00158 flights47.4%
- Departs 07:0551 flights15.3%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1220 runs level with that at 89.5%. 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 1220 next to PBI to DFW
Every carrier on PBI to DFW combined arrived on time 73.0% of the time across 1,068 flights, so AA 1220 is 17 points ahead of it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1220thin sample | 333 | 89.5% | 88 min | 2.70% | A |
| All American Airlines on PBI–DFW | 1,068 | 73.0% | 82 min | 2.90% | C |
| All carriers on PBI–DFW | 1,068 | 73.0% | 82 min | 2.90% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1220 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1220 held fairly steady: 90.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.9% in Jan–Mar 2026, 86.5% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 90.3% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights90.2%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights93.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.5%
- Jul–Sep 202631 flights90.3%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1220 ranged from 84.4% on Sunday to 95.7% on Thursday. With about 48 flights behind each day, a spread of 11 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1220 runs when it is late
AA 1220 often beats the schedule: 168 of 323 completed flights, 52%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 34 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 8 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 11 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early168 flights52.0%
- Within 15 min121 flights37.5%
- 15–29 min late15 flights4.6%
- 30–59 min late8 flights2.5%
- 1–2 hours late5 flights1.5%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 323 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
5 of 26 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 19% of them. 13 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1220
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 January 2026, 9 hours 24 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2026 | 9 hours 24 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 21 April 2026 | 8 hours 24 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 June 2026 | 4 hours 25 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 4 March 2026 | 3 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
| 11 October 2025 | 3 hours 2 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1220 runs late
Carrier accounts for 51% of the 2,996 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 51%Carrier
- 29%National Airspace System
- 14%Extreme weather
- 5%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 14% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,996 delay minutes reported on AA 1220.
Cancellations run at 2.70%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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 3.4% 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 1,102 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including BFL to PHX (1), but none flew often enough under AA 1220 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to PBI to DFW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 333 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 1220
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1220: 2.70% of its 333 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- PBI to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to PBI, the return direction
- Palm Beach International (PBI) 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
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.