Flight number record
AA 1430
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to San Francisco
- Route
- DFW → SFO
- Departs
- 19:12
- Flights
- 277
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1430, check with American Airlines.
AA 1430 earns a D−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 56.1% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 21 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average about an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 277 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1430 runs 21 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 215 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
56.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 262 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
5.42%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
16.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 277 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 16.4% 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 1430 flies
AA 1430 flies DFW to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 19:12, used on 41 of 277 flights, with 19:40 (37 flights) and 18:51 (34 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 19:1241 flights14.8%
- Departs 19:4037 flights13.4%
- Departs 18:5134 flights12.3%
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 19:12 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and AA 1430 runs 12 points worse at 56.1%. 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 1430 next to DFW to SFO
Every carrier on DFW to SFO combined arrived on time 62.0% of the time across 4,125 flights, so AA 1430 is 6 points behind it. American flew 3,071 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 59.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 18 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1430thin sample | 277 | 56.1% | 65 min | 5.42% | D− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–SFO | 3,071 | 59.3% | 68 min | 2.74% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–SFO | 4,125 | 62.0% | 72 min | 2.38% | D |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | 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 69 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 202584 flights61.2%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights60.0%
- Jan–Mar 202665 flights63.9%
- Apr–Jun 202641 flights22.2%
Scale runs 15% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1430 did best on Tuesday at 76.3% on time and worst on Sunday at 39.5%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 37 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1430 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 7,415 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.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 19%National Airspace System
- 5%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. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 7,415 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 8 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 7,415 delay minutes reported on AA 1430.
Cancellations run at 5.42%, 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. 16.4% 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 1,464 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. 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 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. 277 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: 5.42% of its 277 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 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 route77.9%
- American Airlines 1996 on the same route76.1%
- 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.