Flight number record
AA 1382
American Airlines · Santa Ana to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- SNA → DFW
- Departs
- 06:45
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 10 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 365 flights, with a median arrival 6 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1382's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 103 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 348 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.84%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
3.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
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 258 of 365 flights, with 07:45 (43 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:45258 flights70.7%
- Departs 07:4543 flights11.8%
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 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 87.9%. 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 1382 next to SNA to DFW
Every carrier on SNA to DFW combined arrived on time 79.6% of the time across 2,917 flights, so AA 1382 is 8 points ahead of it. American flew 2,893 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1382 | 365 | 87.9% | 70 min | 3.84% | A− |
| All American Airlines on SNA–DFW | 2,893 | 79.8% | 98 min | 3.42% | B− |
| All carriers on SNA–DFW | 2,917 | 79.6% | 97 min | 3.39% | B− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1382 quarter by quarter
AA 1382 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 94.1% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 80.4%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 91 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 202592 flights94.1%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights80.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights86.0%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.8%
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1382 did best on Thursday at 94.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 73.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1382 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 52% of the 2,925 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.
- 52%Carrier
- 27%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. 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 1,522 of the 2,925 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,925 delay minutes reported on AA 1382.
Cancellations run at 3.84%, 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 3.4% 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 1,205 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. 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 365 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. 365 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: 3.84% of its 365 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
- American Airlines 2659 on the same route77.1%
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.