Flight number record
AA 1406
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to San Antonio
- Route
- DFW → SAT
- Departs
- 20:40
- Flights
- 323
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1406, check with American Airlines.
AA 1406 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 323 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1406 runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 190 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
58.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 309 completed flights
Avg delay
82 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.02%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
15.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 323 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When AA 1406 flies
AA 1406 flies DFW to SAT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:40, used on 104 of 323 flights, with 21:00 (43 flights) and 20:48 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 20:40104 flights32.2%
- Departs 21:0043 flights13.3%
- Departs 20:4841 flights12.7%
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 20:40 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 1406 runs 12 points worse at 58.6%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
AA 1406 next to DFW to SAT
Every carrier on DFW to SAT combined arrived on time 67.0% of the time across 4,383 flights, so AA 1406 is 8 points behind it. American flew 3,551 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 64.1% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1406thin sample | 323 | 58.6% | 82 min | 4.02% | D− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–SAT | 3,551 | 64.1% | 82 min | 3.55% | D− |
| All carriers on DFW–SAT | 4,383 | 67.0% | 79 min | 3.49% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | 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 Apr–Jun 2026 at 51.2%, a swing of 21 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 202592 flights55.2%
- Oct–Dec 202577 flights58.7%
- Jan–Mar 202669 flights72.3%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights51.2%
Scale runs 45% 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 Sunday at 44.4%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1406 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 10,000 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.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 9%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
55% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 10,459 delay minutes reported on AA 1406.
Cancellations run at 4.02%, 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 15.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum 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. 323 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: 4.02% of its 323 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 route84.2%
- American Airlines 499 on the same route59.4%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- San Antonio International (SAT) 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.