Flight number record
AA 1949
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to San Francisco
- Route
- DFW → SFO
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 314
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1949, check with American Airlines.
AA 1949 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by a little over an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 314 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 307 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.23%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
8.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 314 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.5% 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 1949 flies
AA 1949 flies DFW to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 89 of 314 flights, with 07:10 (59 flights) and 07:26 (44 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:0089 flights28.3%
- Departs 07:1059 flights18.8%
- Departs 07:2644 flights14.0%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1949 runs 11 points worse at 77.9%. 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 1949 next to DFW to SFO
Every carrier on DFW to SFO combined arrived on time 62.0% of the time across 4,125 flights, so AA 1949 is 16 points ahead of it. American flew 3,071 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 59.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1949thin sample | 314 | 77.9% | 71 min | 2.23% | B |
| All American Airlines on DFW–SFO | 3,071 | 59.3% | 68 min | 2.74% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–SFO | 4,125 | 62.0% | 72 min | 2.38% | D |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 1949 quarter by quarter
AA 1949 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 86.2% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 71.4%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 79 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 202563 flights74.2%
- Oct–Dec 202581 flights86.2%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights79.0%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights71.4%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1949 did best on Thursday at 86.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 68.9%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 1949 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 59% of the 4,803 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.
- 59%Carrier
- 19%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%National Airspace System
- 6%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 59%, 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 2,835 of the 4,803 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,803 delay minutes reported on AA 1949.
Cancellations sit at 2.23% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
8.5% 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 a little over an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,464 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 1949 is not only a DFW to SFO flight. It also flew SFO to DFW (285 flights, 81.0% 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. 314 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SFO to DFWthin sample | 285 | 81.0% | 107 min | 1.75% | B |
What to do with this
Booking AA 1949
For a booking, read AA 1949 as 77.9% on time with 2.23% cancelled over 314 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.