Flight number record
AA 1987
American Airlines · New York to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- LGA → DFW
- Departs
- 07:30
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1987, check with American Airlines.
AA 1987 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 an hour and a half on average. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 343 completed flights
Avg delay
93 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.96%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
6.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 1987 flies
AA 1987 flies LGA to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:30, used on 93 of 363 flights, with 08:00 (79 flights) and 08:35 (39 flights) next.
- Departs 07:3093 flights25.6%
- Departs 08:0079 flights21.8%
- Departs 08:3539 flights10.7%
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 07:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 1987 runs 10 points worse at 79.3%. 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 1987 next to LGA to DFW
Every carrier on LGA to DFW combined arrived on time 70.1% of the time across 6,646 flights, so AA 1987 is 9 points ahead of it. American flew 4,309 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.2% 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 1987thin sample | 363 | 79.3% | 93 min | 4.96% | B− |
| All American Airlines on LGA–DFW | 4,309 | 71.2% | 93 min | 4.92% | C− |
| All carriers on LGA–DFW | 6,646 | 70.1% | 88 min | 5.13% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 1987 quarter by quarter
AA 1987 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 90.0% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 68.2%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 73 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 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights85.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights68.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights75.9%
Scale runs 60% to 95%.
By weekday, AA 1987 did best on Wednesday at 84.0% on time and worst on Friday at 72.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 12 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 1987 runs when it is late
AA 1987 often beats the schedule: 156 of 343 completed flights, 45%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 71 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 24 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 23 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early156 flights45.5%
- Within 15 min116 flights33.8%
- 15–29 min late24 flights7.0%
- 30–59 min late24 flights7.0%
- 1–2 hours late11 flights3.2%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 343 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 49 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 16% of them. In the other direction, 30 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 1987
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 June 2026, 15 hours 32 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 3 June 2026 | 15 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 27 April 2026 | 13 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 July 2026 | 11 hours 12 minutes | Carrier |
| 3 August 2026 | 4 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 22 July 2026 | 3 hours 34 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 1987 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 6,581 reported delay minutes.
- 42%Carrier
- 34%Late-arriving aircraft
- 23%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
34% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 6,581 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 34 to one. The split is drawn from 6,581 delay minutes reported on AA 1987.
Cancellations run at 4.96%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
6.7% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,389 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 363 flights under AA 1987 in the data flew LGA 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. 363 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 1987
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 1987: 4.96% of its 363 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
- LGA to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to LGA, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 846 on the same route63.7%
- Delta Air Lines 873 on the same route75.9%
- Frontier Airlines 3423 on the same route58.1%
- American Airlines 1056 on the same route64.5%
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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.