Flight number record
AA 1403
American Airlines · Baltimore to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- BWI → DFW
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1403, check with American Airlines.
AA 1403 lands a B−, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by close to two hours on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1403's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 62 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.84%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 1403 flies
AA 1403 flies BWI to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 73 of 365 flights, with 07:00 (46 flights) and 06:02 (46 flights) next.
- Departs 06:0073 flights20.0%
- Departs 07:0046 flights12.6%
- Departs 06:0246 flights12.6%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1403 runs 6 points worse at 83.5%. 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 1403 next to BWI to DFW
Every carrier on BWI to DFW combined arrived on time 73.1% of the time across 1,326 flights, so AA 1403 is 10 points ahead of it. American flew 968 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 74.7%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1403 | 365 | 83.5% | 103 min | 3.84% | B− |
| All American Airlines on BWI–DFW | 968 | 73.7% | 109 min | 3.00% | C |
| All carriers on BWI–DFW | 1,326 | 73.1% | 105 min | 2.56% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1403 quarter by quarter
AA 1403 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 79.1%, a swing of 11 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights80.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights79.1%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.0%
Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1403 did best on Tuesday at 94.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 70.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1403 runs when it is late
AA 1403 often beats the schedule: 183 of 351 completed flights, 52%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 58 late arrivals split 23 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 24 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early183 flights52.1%
- Within 15 min110 flights31.3%
- 15–29 min late23 flights6.6%
- 30–59 min late11 flights3.1%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights2.8%
- 2+ hours late14 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 351 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 46 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 22% of them. In the other direction, 22 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1403
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 February 2026, 14 hours 23 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 February 2026 | 14 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 November 2025 | 12 hours 55 minutes | Carrier |
| 5 August 2026 | 6 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 May 2026 | 4 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 June 2026 | 4 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1403 runs late
Carrier accounts for 63% of the 5,959 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 63%Carrier
- 20%Late-arriving aircraft
- 13%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 63%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,773 of the 5,959 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,959 delay minutes reported on AA 1403.
Cancellations run at 3.84%, against 1.89% 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
6.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,217 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 365 flights under AA 1403 in the data flew BWI 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 1403
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1403: 3.84% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- BWI to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to BWI, the return direction
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) 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.