Flight number record
AA 1949
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to San Francisco
- Route
- DFW → SFO
- Departs
- 07:10
- Flights
- 315
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1949, check with American Airlines.
AA 1949 lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That rests on 315 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 309 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.90%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
7.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 315 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 4 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.
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Schedule
When AA 1949 flies
AA 1949 flies DFW to SFO without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:10, used on 120 of 315 flights, with 07:26 (44 flights) and 07:28 (43 flights) next.
- Departs 07:10120 flights38.1%
- Departs 07:2644 flights14.0%
- Departs 07:2843 flights13.7%
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 07:10 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 10 points worse at 79.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AA 1949 next to DFW to SFO
Every carrier on DFW to SFO combined arrived on time 60.8% of the time across 4,264 flights, so AA 1949 is 19 points ahead of it. American flew 3,096 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 58.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 5 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1949thin sample | 315 | 79.6% | 65 min | 1.90% | B |
| All American Airlines on DFW–SFO | 3,096 | 58.2% | 67 min | 2.55% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–SFO | 4,264 | 60.8% | 68 min | 2.18% | D |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | 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 20252 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202581 flights86.2%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights79.0%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights71.4%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights83.9%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1949 did best on Tuesday at 84.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 71.1%. Each day rests on about 45 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1949 runs when it is late
The 63 late arrivals split 30 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 22 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early69 flights22.3%
- Within 15 min177 flights57.3%
- 15–29 min late30 flights9.7%
- 30–59 min late11 flights3.6%
- 1–2 hours late14 flights4.5%
- 2+ hours late8 flights2.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 309 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
11 of 56 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. In the other direction, 18 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at SFO.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1949
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 July 2026, 6 hours 20 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 July 2026 | 6 hours 20 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 February 2026 | 5 hours 29 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 March 2026 | 4 hours 17 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 December 2025 | 4 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 April 2026 | 3 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 1949 runs late
Carrier accounts for 43% of the 4,087 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Carrier
- 35%Late-arriving aircraft
- 14%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
35% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 4,087 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 4,087 delay minutes reported on AA 1949.
Cancellations sit at 1.90% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so 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.
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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including SFO to DFW (227), but none flew often enough under AA 1949 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to SFO only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 315 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.
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Related
Where to go next
- DFW to SFO, every carrier and departure
- SFO to DFW, the return direction
- American Airlines 1430 on the same route48.7%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- San Francisco International (SFO) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
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- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.