Flight number record
AA 1382
American Airlines · Santa Ana to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- SNA → DFW
- Departs
- 06:45
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1382, check with American Airlines.
AA 1382 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs a little over an hour. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1382's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 113 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
88.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.77%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 6 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 1382 flies
AA 1382 flies SNA to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:45, used on 228 of 361 flights, with 06:46 (53 flights) next.
- Departs 06:45228 flights63.2%
- Departs 06:4653 flights14.7%
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 06:45 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1382 runs level with that at 88.6%. 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 1382 next to SNA to DFW
Every carrier on SNA to DFW combined arrived on time 81.3% of the time across 2,957 flights, so AA 1382 is 7 points ahead of it. American flew 2,897 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1382thin sample | 361 | 88.6% | 72 min | 2.77% | A |
| All American Airlines on SNA–DFW | 2,897 | 81.8% | 92 min | 2.69% | B |
| All carriers on SNA–DFW | 2,957 | 81.3% | 93 min | 2.71% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1382 quarter by quarter
AA 1382 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 96.6% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 80.4%, a swing of 16 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights80.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.8%
- Jul–Sep 202658 flights96.6%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1382 did best on Thursday at 96.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 77.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1382 runs when it is late
The 40 late arrivals split 19 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 12 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early79 flights22.6%
- Within 15 min231 flights66.0%
- 15–29 min late19 flights5.4%
- 30–59 min late9 flights2.6%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 31 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 26% of them. 17 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1382
The latest arrival of the period was on 23 February 2026, 11 hours 40 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 23 February 2026 | 11 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 November 2025 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 February 2026 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 November 2025 | 2 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 May 2026 | 2 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1382 runs late
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 2,876 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 28%Late-arriving aircraft
- 19%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,507 of the 2,876 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,876 delay minutes reported on AA 1382.
Cancellations run at 2.77%, against 1.89% 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 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 1,205 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.
Every one of the 361 flights under AA 1382 in the data flew SNA 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. 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 1382
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1382: 2.77% 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
- SNA to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to SNA, the return direction
- John Wayne Airport (SNA) 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.