Flight number record
AA 1406
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to San Antonio
- Route
- DFW → SAT
- Departs
- 20:48
- Flights
- 322
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1406, check with American Airlines.
AA 1406 earns a D−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 57.6% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 20 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average a little over an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 322 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 1406 runs 20 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 197 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
57.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 309 completed flights
Avg delay
77 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.73%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
16.2%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 322 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 1406 flies
AA 1406 flies DFW to SAT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:48, used on 75 of 322 flights, with 20:40 (72 flights) next.
- Departs 20:4875 flights23.3%
- Departs 20:4072 flights22.4%
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 20:48 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and AA 1406 runs 12 points worse at 57.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AA 1406 next to DFW to SAT
Every carrier on DFW to SAT combined arrived on time 67.8% of the time across 4,375 flights, so AA 1406 is 10 points behind it. American flew 3,531 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 64.5% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1406thin sample | 322 | 57.6% | 77 min | 3.73% | D− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–SAT | 3,531 | 64.5% | 81 min | 2.95% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–SAT | 4,375 | 67.8% | 79 min | 2.83% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1406 quarter by quarter
AA 1406 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 72.3% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 48.3%, a swing of 24 points on roughly 81 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 202577 flights58.7%
- Jan–Mar 202669 flights72.3%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights51.2%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights48.3%
Scale runs 40% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1406 did best on Wednesday at 73.2% on time and worst on Friday at 41.9%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 31 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1406 runs when it is late
The 131 late arrivals split 38 under half an hour, 43 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 50 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early31 flights10.0%
- Within 15 min147 flights47.6%
- 15–29 min late38 flights12.3%
- 30–59 min late43 flights13.9%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights9.4%
- 2+ hours late21 flights6.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 309 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
18 of 141 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1406
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 August 2026, 11 hours 49 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across August, October, July, June and April, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2026 | 11 hours 49 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 October 2025 | 9 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 July 2026 | 5 hours 18 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 June 2026 | 4 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 April 2026 | 4 hours 37 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why AA 1406 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 50% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 50%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 9%Extreme weather
- 8%National Airspace System
50% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 10,071 delay minutes reported on AA 1406.
Cancellations run at 3.73%, 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
16.2% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including DEN to DFW (18), DFW to ELP (3) and LAX to PHX (1), but none flew often enough under AA 1406 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to SAT only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 322 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 1406
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1406: 3.73% of its 322 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 SAT, every carrier and departure
- SAT to DFW, the return direction
- American Airlines 1836 on the same route83.8%
- American Airlines 499 on the same route59.5%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- San Antonio International (SAT) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
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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.