Flight number record
AA 1403
American Airlines · Baltimore to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- BWI → DFW
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1403, check with American Airlines.
AA 1403 lands a B−, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 1403's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 47 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
82.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.84%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
5.7%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 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 (72 flights) and 06:02 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:0073 flights20.0%
- Departs 07:0072 flights19.7%
- Departs 06:0246 flights12.6%
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 06:00 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 7 points worse at 82.3%. 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 1403 next to BWI to DFW
Every carrier on BWI to DFW combined arrived on time 72.0% of the time across 1,335 flights, so AA 1403 is 10 points ahead of it. American flew 938 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 72.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1403 | 365 | 82.3% | 85 min | 3.84% | B− |
| All American Airlines on BWI–DFW | 938 | 72.2% | 99 min | 3.52% | C− |
| All carriers on BWI–DFW | 1,335 | 72.0% | 100 min | 3.00% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1403 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1403 held fairly steady: 86.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 80.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 83.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 79.1% 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 202592 flights86.4%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights80.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights79.1%
Scale runs 70% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1403 did best on Tuesday at 92.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 72.9%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1403 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 75% of the 5,261 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.
- 75%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 5%Late-arriving aircraft
- 4%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
The largest share of delay minutes, 75%, 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 3,959 of the 5,261 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,261 delay minutes reported on AA 1403.
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
5.7% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, 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. 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 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 an hour and a half, 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.