Flight number record
AA 1953
American Airlines · New York to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- JFK → DFW
- Departs
- 11:00
- Flights
- 362
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1953, check with American Airlines.
AA 1953 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 8 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 2 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 1953 runs 8 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 83 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
69.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights
Avg delay
88 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.76%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
13.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 362 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 13.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 1953 flies
AA 1953 flies JFK to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:00, used on 44 of 362 flights, with 14:43 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 11:0044 flights12.2%
- Departs 14:4342 flights11.6%
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 11:00 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AA 1953 runs 9 points worse at 69.0%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
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Against the route
AA 1953 next to JFK to DFW
Every carrier on JFK to DFW combined arrived on time 75.9% of the time across 1,953 flights, so AA 1953 is 7 points behind it. American flew 1,471 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 1953thin sample | 362 | 69.0% | 88 min | 2.76% | C |
| All American Airlines on JFK–DFW | 1,471 | 77.2% | 89 min | 2.72% | B |
| All carriers on JFK–DFW | 1,953 | 75.9% | 91 min | 3.33% | B− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1953 quarter by quarter
AA 1953 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 79.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 59.6%, 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights68.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights79.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights69.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights59.6%
Scale runs 50% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 1953 did best on Tuesday at 80.9% on time and worst on Friday at 62.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1953 runs when it is late
AA 1953 often beats the schedule: 114 of 345 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 107 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 30 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 46 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early114 flights33.0%
- Within 15 min124 flights35.9%
- 15–29 min late31 flights9.0%
- 30–59 min late30 flights8.7%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights8.4%
- 2+ hours late17 flights4.9%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 345 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
24 of 106 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 23% of them. In the other direction, 25 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 DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 1953
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 January 2026, 19 hours 47 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2026 | 19 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 17 hours 41 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 September 2025 | 6 hours 59 minutes | Carrier |
| 7 June 2026 | 5 hours 41 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 8 November 2025 | 4 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 1953 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 9,439 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 36%Carrier
- 20%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,439 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 27 to one. The split is drawn from 9,439 delay minutes reported on AA 1953.
Cancellations run at 2.76%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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
13.3% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,391 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.
Every one of the 362 flights under AA 1953 in the data flew JFK to DFW. 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. 362 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 1953
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1953: 2.76% of its 362 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
- JFK to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to JFK, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 496 on the same route67.7%
- John F. Kennedy International (JFK) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.