Flight number record
AA 1456
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Salt Lake City
- Route
- DFW → SLC
- Departs
- 13:20
- Flights
- 287
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 287 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 1456 runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 139 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 276 completed flights
Avg delay
62 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.79%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
14.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 287 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.1% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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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 287 flights, with 13:11 (42 flights) and 13:31 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 13:2044 flights15.3%
- Departs 13:1142 flights14.6%
- Departs 13:3137 flights12.9%
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 13:20 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AA 1456 runs 15 points worse at 63.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AA 1456 next to DFW to SLC
Every carrier on DFW to SLC combined arrived on time 71.1% of the time across 3,872 flights, so AA 1456 is 8 points behind it. American flew 2,203 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 61.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1456thin sample | 287 | 63.4% | 62 min | 2.79% | D |
| All American Airlines on DFW–SLC | 2,203 | 61.7% | 65 min | 2.68% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–SLC | 3,872 | 71.1% | 70 min | 2.17% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1456 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 1456 held fairly steady: 66.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 68.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 60.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 61.7% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights66.7%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights68.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights60.5%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights61.7%
- Jul–Sep 202627 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1456 did best on Tuesday at 71.8% on time and worst on Saturday at 54.1%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 18 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1456 runs when it is late
The 101 late arrivals split 28 under half an hour, 34 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 39 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early42 flights15.2%
- Within 15 min133 flights48.2%
- 15–29 min late28 flights10.1%
- 30–59 min late34 flights12.3%
- 1–2 hours late28 flights10.1%
- 2+ hours late11 flights4.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 276 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
14 of 110 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 13% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1456
The latest arrival of the period was on 15 March 2026, 3 hours 47 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across March, February, January and October, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 15 March 2026 | 3 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 February 2026 | 3 hours 34 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 27 January 2026 | 3 hours 20 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 24 October 2025 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 March 2026 | 3 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1456 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 46% of the 6,272 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 46%Late-arriving aircraft
- 41%Carrier
- 7%Extreme weather
- 6%National Airspace System
- 0%Security
46% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,272 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. The split is drawn from 6,272 delay minutes reported on AA 1456.
Cancellations run at 2.79%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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
14.1% 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 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.
AA 1456 is not only a DFW to SLC flight. It also flew SLC to DFW (281 flights, 63.2% 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. 287 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 | 281 | 63.2% | 78 min | 4.27% | D− |
What to do with this
Booking AA 1456
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1456: 2.79% of its 287 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
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- Delta Air Lines 2798 on the same route86.2%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
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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.