Flight number record

AA 1429

American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Fort Lauderdale

Route: DFW → FLL
Departs: 07:00
Flights: 272
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1429, check with American Airlines.

AA 1429 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 272 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.

The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1429 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 56 extra late arrivals.

On time

72.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 261 completed flights

Avg delay

70 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.31%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

11.5%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 272 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 11.5% 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 1429 flies

AA 1429 flies DFW to FLL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 77 of 272 flights, with 19:31 (54 flights) and 19:10 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:0077 flights28.3%
Departs 19:3154 flights19.9%
Departs 19:1037 flights13.6%

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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1429 runs 17 points worse at 72.0%. 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 1429 next to DFW to FLL

Every carrier on DFW to FLL combined arrived on time 70.2% of the time across 2,985 flights, so AA 1429 is 2 points ahead of it. American flew 1,986 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 68.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 2 points.

AA 1429 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1429thin sample	272	72.0%	70 min	3.31%	C−
All American Airlines on DFW–FLL	1,986	68.6%	71 min	3.32%	C−
All carriers on DFW–FLL	2,985	70.2%	72 min	3.45%	C−
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1429 quarter by quarter

AA 1429 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 83.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 63.5%, a swing of 20 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 202590 flights83.7%
Oct–Dec 202586 flights71.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights63.5%
Apr–Jun 20266 flights—

Scale runs 55% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1429 did best on Thursday at 78.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 64.9%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 1429 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 54% of the 5,121 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
54%
Carrier
35%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
0%

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 5,121 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 54 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 5,121 delay minutes reported on AA 1429.

Cancellations run at 3.31%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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. 11.5% 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 1,119 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 four other city pairs in the data, including FLL to DFW (121), PHX to MIA (44) and AVL to DFW (41), but none flew often enough under AA 1429 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to FLL only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 272 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 1429

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1429: 3.31% of its 272 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.

Where to go next

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.

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