Flight number record
AA 1883
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Jackson
- Route
- DFW → JAC
- Departs
- 12:40
- Flights
- 303
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1883, check with American Airlines.
AA 1883 draws a C. About one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 303 flights, with a median arrival 1 minute early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 1883 runs 11 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 108 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
66.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 292 completed flights
Avg delay
84 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.64%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
14.7%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 303 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.7% 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 1883 flies
AA 1883 flies DFW to JAC without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:40, used on 94 of 303 flights, with 12:25 (64 flights) and 10:47 (38 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 12:4094 flights31.0%
- Departs 12:2564 flights21.1%
- Departs 10:4738 flights12.5%
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 12:40 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 1883 runs 12 points worse at 66.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 1883 next to DFW to JAC
Every carrier on DFW to JAC combined arrived on time 64.2% of the time across 749 flights, so AA 1883 is 3 points ahead of 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 1883thin sample | 303 | 66.8% | 84 min | 2.64% | C |
| All American Airlines on DFW–JAC | 749 | 64.2% | 84 min | 2.40% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–JAC | 749 | 64.2% | 84 min | 2.40% | D |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1883 quarter by quarter
AA 1883 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 72.5% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 55.7%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 101 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 flights72.5%
- Oct–Dec 202530 flights—
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights70.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights55.7%
Scale runs 45% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1883 did best on Tuesday at 83.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 55.8%. Each day rests on about 43 flights, so a gap of 28 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1883 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 51% of the 8,162 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
- 32%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
- 7%National Airspace System
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 8,162 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 8,162 delay minutes reported on AA 1883.
Cancellations run at 2.64%, 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 14.7% 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 1,047 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 two other city pairs in the data, including JAC to DFW (229) and ATL to MIA (1), but none flew often enough under AA 1883 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to JAC only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 303 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 1883
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1883: 2.64% of its 303 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to JAC, every carrier and departure
- JAC to DFW, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) 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.