Flight number record

AA 1226

American Airlines · Miami to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: MIA → DFW
Departs: 05:18
Flights: 362
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1226, check with American Airlines.

AA 1226 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 a little over an hour. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 1226's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 117 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

89.3%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights

Avg delay

73 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.14%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

3.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 362 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 1226 flies

AA 1226 flies MIA to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:18, used on 99 of 362 flights, with 05:00 (87 flights) and 05:15 (63 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 05:1899 flights27.3%
Departs 05:0087 flights24.0%
Departs 05:1563 flights17.4%

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 05:18 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1226 runs level with that at 89.3%. 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 1226 next to MIA to DFW

Every carrier on MIA to DFW combined arrived on time 73.1% of the time across 4,825 flights, so AA 1226 is 16 points ahead of it. American flew 4,294 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 15 points.

AA 1226 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1226thin sample	362	89.3%	73 min	4.14%	A−
All American Airlines on MIA–DFW	4,294	73.7%	79 min	2.79%	C
All carriers on MIA–DFW	4,825	73.1%	78 min	2.80%	C
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1226 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 1226 held fairly steady: 89.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 86.5% in Oct–Dec 2025, 93.0% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 88.0% 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 202591 flights89.7%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights86.5%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights93.0%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights88.0%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1226 ranged from 85.1% on Saturday to 96.1% on Tuesday. With about 52 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.

Delay causes

Why AA 1226 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 59% of the 2,705 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
59%
Late-arriving aircraft
23%
National Airspace System
16%
Extreme weather
2%

The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, 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 1,594 of the 2,705 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,705 delay minutes reported on AA 1226.

Cancellations run at 4.14%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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 3.5% 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 1,121 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 362 flights under AA 1226 in the data flew MIA 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. 362 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 1226

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1226: 4.14% of its 362 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.

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.

Key figures