Flight number record

AA 1220

American Airlines · West Palm Beach to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: PBI → DFW
Departs: 07:00
Flights: 364
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 1220's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 122 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 352 completed flights

Avg delay

85 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.02%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 364 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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 1220 flies

AA 1220 flies PBI to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 194 of 364 flights. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:00194 flights53.3%

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 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 89.8%. 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 1220 next to PBI to DFW

Every carrier on PBI to DFW combined arrived on time 70.6% of the time across 1,145 flights, so AA 1220 is 19 points ahead of it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 15 points.

AA 1220 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1220thin sample	364	89.8%	85 min	3.02%	A−
All American Airlines on PBI–DFW	1,145	70.6%	83 min	3.23%	C−
All carriers on PBI–DFW	1,145	70.6%	83 min	3.23%	C−
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1220 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 1220 held fairly steady: 88.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 90.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.9% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 86.5% in Apr–Jun 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 202592 flights88.8%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights90.2%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights93.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.5%

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By weekday, AA 1220 ranged from 85.7% on Sunday to 94.1% 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.

Delay causes

Why AA 1220 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 50% of the 3,061 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
50%
National Airspace System
31%
Extreme weather
14%
Late-arriving aircraft
5%

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 2.3 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,061 delay minutes reported on AA 1220.

Cancellations run at 3.02%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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 8.1% 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 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. 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 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. 364 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: 3.02% of its 364 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.

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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