Flight number record
AA 1371
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Des Moines
- Route
- DFW → DSM
- Departs
- 22:00
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1371, check with American Airlines.
AA 1371 earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 52.9% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 25 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average a little over an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1371 runs 25 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 247 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
52.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 342 completed flights
Avg delay
81 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.99%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
18.7%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 18.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When AA 1371 flies
AA 1371 flies DFW to DSM without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 22:00, used on 44 of 361 flights, with 21:30 (37 flights) and 22:07 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 22:0044 flights12.2%
- Departs 21:3037 flights10.2%
- Departs 22:0737 flights10.2%
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 22:00 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 1371 runs 18 points worse at 52.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
AA 1371 next to DFW to DSM
Every carrier on DFW to DSM combined arrived on time 66.5% of the time across 1,434 flights, so AA 1371 is 14 points behind it. American flew 949 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 57.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 22 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1371thin sample | 361 | 52.9% | 81 min | 4.99% | F− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–DSM | 949 | 57.2% | 92 min | 4.95% | D− |
| All carriers on DFW–DSM | 1,434 | 66.5% | 86 min | 3.91% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1371 quarter by quarter
AA 1371 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 58.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 44.6%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 90 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 202590 flights44.6%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights53.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights55.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights58.1%
Scale runs 35% to 65%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1371 did best on Friday at 60.4% on time and worst on Thursday at 36.7%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 24 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1371 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 13,000 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.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 40%Carrier
- 8%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 13,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 12,969 delay minutes reported on AA 1371.
Cancellations run at 4.99%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 18.7% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 624 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 361 flights under AA 1371 in the data flew DFW to DSM. 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. 361 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 1371
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1371: 4.99% of its 361 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
- DFW to DSM, every carrier and departure
- DSM to DFW, the return direction
- 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.