Flight number record

AA 1987

American Airlines · New York to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: LGA → DFW
Departs: 07:30
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 1987, check with American Airlines.

AA 1987 lands a B−, 5 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 1987's record is 5 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 50 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

82.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 345 completed flights

Avg delay

83 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

4.41%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

4.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 15 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.

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 130 of 363 flights, with 08:00 (79 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:30130 flights35.8%
Departs 08:0079 flights21.8%

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 07:30 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 7 points worse at 82.6%. 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 1987 next to LGA to DFW

Every carrier on LGA to DFW combined arrived on time 70.8% of the time across 6,782 flights, so AA 1987 is 12 points ahead of it. American flew 4,295 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.0% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 8 points.

AA 1987 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 1987thin sample	363	82.6%	83 min	4.41%	B−
All American Airlines on LGA–DFW	4,295	71.0%	90 min	4.98%	C−
All carriers on LGA–DFW	6,782	70.8%	86 min	4.94%	C−
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	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 93.3% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 68.2%, a swing of 25 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 202592 flights93.3%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights85.2%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.9%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights68.2%

Scale runs 60% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 1987 did best on Tuesday at 88.2% on time and worst on Friday at 74.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

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 4,956 reported delay minutes.

Late-arriving aircraft
37%
Carrier
34%
National Airspace System
27%
Extreme weather
1%
Security
1%

37% 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 4,956 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 34 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 4,956 delay minutes reported on AA 1987.

Cancellations run at 4.41%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 25 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

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. 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.

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: 4.41% 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.

Where to go next

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.

Key figures