Flight number record
AA 1425
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Hartford
- Route
- DFW → BDL
- Departs
- 18:50
- Flights
- 302
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1425, check with American Airlines.
AA 1425 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 302 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1425 runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 194 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
58.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 285 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.30%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
16.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 302 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.5% 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 1425 flies
AA 1425 flies DFW to BDL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:50, used on 41 of 302 flights, with 19:14 (37 flights) and 19:01 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 18:5041 flights13.6%
- Departs 19:1437 flights12.3%
- Departs 19:0136 flights11.9%
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 18:50 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and AA 1425 runs 10 points worse at 58.2%. 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 1425 next to DFW to BDL
Every carrier on DFW to BDL combined arrived on time 64.3% of the time across 704 flights, so AA 1425 is 6 points behind it. 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 1425thin sample | 302 | 58.2% | 70 min | 5.30% | D− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–BDL | 704 | 64.3% | 66 min | 3.69% | D− |
| All carriers on DFW–BDL | 704 | 64.3% | 66 min | 3.69% | D− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1425 quarter by quarter
AA 1425 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 70.1% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 38.8%, a swing of 31 points on roughly 76 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 202553 flights38.8%
- Oct–Dec 202573 flights52.8%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights70.1%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights63.2%
Scale runs 30% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1425 did best on Tuesday at 73.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 47.4%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 26 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1425 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 8,311 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.
- 54%Late-arriving aircraft
- 32%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
54% 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 8,311 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 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 8,311 delay minutes reported on AA 1425.
Cancellations run at 5.30%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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. 16.5% 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 1,471 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.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including DFW to ORD (6), MIA to LBB (1) and LBB to MIA (1), but none flew often enough under AA 1425 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to BDL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 302 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 1425
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1425: 5.30% of its 302 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
- 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
- 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.