Flight number record

AA 1836

American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to San Antonio

Route: DFW → SAT
Departs: 07:05
Flights: 350
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1836, check with American Airlines.

AA 1836 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 350 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 1836's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 66 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 341 completed flights

Avg delay

67 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.57%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 350 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 9 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Schedule

When AA 1836 flies

AA 1836 flies DFW to SAT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:05, used on 80 of 350 flights, with 07:06 (67 flights) and 07:10 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:0580 flights22.9%
Departs 07:0667 flights19.1%
Departs 07:1044 flights12.6%

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 07:05 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1836 runs 5 points worse at 84.2%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

AA 1836 next to DFW to SAT

Every carrier on DFW to SAT combined arrived on time 67.0% of the time across 4,383 flights, so AA 1836 is 17 points ahead of it. American flew 3,551 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 64.1% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

AA 1836 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1836thin sample	350	84.2%	67 min	2.57%	B
All American Airlines on DFW–SAT	3,551	64.1%	82 min	3.55%	D−
All carriers on DFW–SAT	4,383	67.0%	79 min	3.49%	C−
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 1836 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 1836 held fairly steady: 81.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 83.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.8% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89.6% 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 202590 flights81.6%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights83.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.8%
Apr–Jun 202680 flights89.6%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1836 ranged from 79.1% on Saturday to 90.6% on Tuesday. With about 50 flights behind each day, a spread of 12 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why AA 1836 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 68% of the 3,590 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.

Carrier
68%
Late-arriving aircraft
19%
Extreme weather
6%
National Airspace System
6%

The largest share of delay minutes, 68%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 2,451 of the 3,590 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,590 delay minutes reported on AA 1836.

Cancellations run at 2.57%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about 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

5.6% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

Every one of the 350 flights under AA 1836 in the data flew DFW 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. 350 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 1836

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1836: 2.57% of its 350 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

Where to go next

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.

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