Flight number record
AA 1468
American Airlines · Miami to San Antonio
- Route
- MIA → SAT
- Departs
- 21:40
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1468, check with American Airlines.
AA 1468 draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1468 runs 12 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 115 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 357 completed flights
Avg delay
72 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.64%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
12.3%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 12.3% 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 1468 flies
AA 1468 flies MIA to SAT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:40, used on 74 of 365 flights, with 21:34 (54 flights) and 20:59 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 21:4074 flights20.3%
- Departs 21:3454 flights14.8%
- Departs 20:5944 flights12.1%
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 21:40 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 1468 runs 4 points worse at 66.1%. 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 1468 next to MIA to SAT
Every carrier on MIA to SAT combined arrived on time 69.6% of the time across 509 flights, so AA 1468 is 4 points behind it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 8 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1468 | 365 | 66.1% | 72 min | 1.64% | C |
| All American Airlines on MIA–SAT | 399 | 65.5% | 69 min | 1.50% | C |
| All carriers on MIA–SAT | 509 | 69.6% | 64 min | 1.18% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1468 quarter by quarter
AA 1468 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 75.8% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 55.6%, 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 202592 flights59.6%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights75.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights73.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights55.6%
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1468 did best on Wednesday at 80.8% on time and worst on Saturday at 51.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 30 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1468 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 8,677 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Late-arriving aircraft
- 40%Carrier
- 11%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
- 1%Security
42% 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 8,677 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 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 8,677 delay minutes reported on AA 1468.
Cancellations sit at 1.64% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.55%.
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. 12.3% 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 1,143 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.
Every one of the 365 flights under AA 1468 in the data flew MIA to SAT. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 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 1468
For a booking, AA 1468 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 12.3% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- Miami International (MIA) delay statistics
- San Antonio International (SAT) 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.