Flight number record
AA 1456
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Salt Lake City
- Route
- DFW → SLC
- Departs
- 13:20
- Flights
- 322
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1456, check with American Airlines.
AA 1456 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 322 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1456 runs 17 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 175 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
60.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 311 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.11%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
15.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 322 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.4% 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 1456 flies
AA 1456 flies DFW to SLC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:20, used on 44 of 322 flights, with 13:11 (42 flights) and 13:32 (40 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 13:2044 flights13.7%
- Departs 13:1142 flights13.0%
- Departs 13:3240 flights12.4%
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 13:20 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 1456 runs 19 points worse at 60.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 1456 next to DFW to SLC
Every carrier on DFW to SLC combined arrived on time 69.6% of the time across 3,871 flights, so AA 1456 is 9 points behind it. American flew 2,214 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 60.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1456thin sample | 322 | 60.1% | 63 min | 3.11% | D− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–SLC | 2,214 | 60.6% | 68 min | 3.25% | D− |
| All carriers on DFW–SLC | 3,871 | 69.6% | 74 min | 2.51% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1456 quarter by quarter
AA 1456 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 68.2% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 51.1%, a swing of 17 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 flights51.1%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights68.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights60.5%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights61.7%
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1456 did best on Tuesday at 68.9% on time and worst on Saturday at 54.8%. Each day rests on about 46 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1456 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 7,809 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.
- 51%Late-arriving aircraft
- 38%Carrier
- 6%Extreme weather
- 5%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
51% 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 7,809 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 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 7,809 delay minutes reported on AA 1456.
Cancellations run at 3.11%, 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. 15.4% 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 989 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.
AA 1456 is not only a DFW to SLC flight. It also flew SLC to DFW (315 flights, 59.2% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 322 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SLC to DFWthin sample | 315 | 59.2% | 74 min | 4.76% | D− |
What to do with this
Booking AA 1456
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1456: 3.11% of its 322 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 SLC, every carrier and departure
- SLC to DFW, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 1291 on the same route88.0%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Salt Lake City International (SLC) 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.