Flight number record
AA 1430
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to San Francisco
- Route
- DFW → SFO
- Departs
- 19:12
- Flights
- 284
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1430, check with American Airlines.
AA 1430 earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 48.7% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 29 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 284 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 1430 runs 29 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 286 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
48.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 271 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.58%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
19.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 284 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 19.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 1430 flies
AA 1430 flies DFW to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:12, used on 42 of 284 flights, with 19:40 (37 flights) and 19:10 (33 flights) next.
- Departs 19:1242 flights14.8%
- Departs 19:4037 flights13.0%
- Departs 19:1033 flights11.6%
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 19:12 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 1430 runs 19 points worse at 48.7%. 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 1430 next to DFW to SFO
Every carrier on DFW to SFO combined arrived on time 60.8% of the time across 4,264 flights, so AA 1430 is 12 points behind it. American flew 3,096 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 58.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 26 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1430thin sample | 284 | 48.7% | 71 min | 4.58% | F− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–SFO | 3,096 | 58.2% | 67 min | 2.55% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–SFO | 4,264 | 60.8% | 68 min | 2.18% | D |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1430 quarter by quarter
AA 1430 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 63.9% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 22.2%, a swing of 42 points on roughly 71 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 202587 flights60.0%
- Jan–Mar 202665 flights63.9%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights22.2%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights26.7%
Scale runs 15% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1430 did best on Tuesday at 69.2% on time and worst on Sunday at 31.6%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 38 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1430 runs when it is late
The 139 late arrivals split 33 under half an hour, 52 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 54 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early34 flights12.5%
- Within 15 min98 flights36.2%
- 15–29 min late33 flights12.2%
- 30–59 min late52 flights19.2%
- 1–2 hours late35 flights12.9%
- 2+ hours late19 flights7.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 271 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 139 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 14 made it up before arrival. In the other direction, 14 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at SFO.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1430
The latest arrival of the period was on 13 July 2026, 11 hours 48 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 13 July 2026 | 11 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 May 2026 | 5 hours 51 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 July 2026 | 4 hours 16 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 2 August 2026 | 4 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 December 2025 | 4 hours | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1430 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 9,848 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
- 2%Security
44% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,848 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 11 to one. The split is drawn from 9,848 delay minutes reported on AA 1430.
Cancellations run at 4.58%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
19.9% 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 1,464 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.
The same number turns up on three other city pairs in the data, including SFO to DFW (44), IND to PHX (30) and PHX to IND (30), but none flew often enough under AA 1430 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to SFO only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 284 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 1430
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1430: 4.58% of its 284 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 SFO, every carrier and departure
- SFO to DFW, the return direction
- American Airlines 1949 on the same route79.6%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- San Francisco International (SFO) 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.