Flight number record
AA 499
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to San Antonio
- Route
- DFW → SAT
- Departs
- 18:30
- Flights
- 286
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 499, check with American Airlines.
AA 499 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is an hour and a half behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 286 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 499 runs 18 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 178 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
59.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 274 completed flights
Avg delay
94 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.20%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
21.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 286 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 21.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 499 flies
AA 499 flies DFW to SAT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:30, used on 76 of 286 flights, with 19:47 (38 flights) next.
- Departs 18:3076 flights26.6%
- Departs 19:4738 flights13.3%
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 18:30 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 499 runs 9 points worse at 59.5%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AA 499 next to DFW to SAT
Every carrier on DFW to SAT combined arrived on time 67.8% of the time across 4,375 flights, so AA 499 is 8 points behind it. American flew 3,531 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 64.5% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 499thin sample | 286 | 59.5% | 94 min | 4.20% | D− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–SAT | 3,531 | 64.5% | 81 min | 2.95% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–SAT | 4,375 | 67.8% | 79 min | 2.83% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 499 quarter by quarter
AA 499 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 61.6% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 42.9%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 72 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 202521 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights61.6%
- Jan–Mar 202653 flights55.8%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights59.3%
- Jul–Sep 202635 flights42.9%
Scale runs 35% to 65%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 499 did best on Wednesday at 70.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 36.1%. Each day rests on about 41 flights, so a gap of 35 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 499 runs when it is late
When AA 499 is late it tends to be very late: 60 of its 111 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 28 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early30 flights10.9%
- Within 15 min133 flights48.5%
- 15–29 min late25 flights9.1%
- 30–59 min late26 flights9.5%
- 1–2 hours late32 flights11.7%
- 2+ hours late28 flights10.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 274 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 120 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 13 made it up before arrival. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 499
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 June 2026, 6 hours 38 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 June 2026 | 6 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 16 July 2026 | 5 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 October 2025 | 5 hours 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 25 October 2025 | 4 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 12 July 2026 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 499 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 10,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 5%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
58% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 10,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 23 to one. The split is drawn from 10,444 delay minutes reported on AA 499.
Cancellations run at 4.20%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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
21.9% 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 same number turns up on four other city pairs in the data, including SAT to DFW (80), CHS to PHL (27) and DFW to OKC (2), but none flew often enough under AA 499 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to SAT only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 286 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 499
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 499: 4.20% of its 286 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
- DFW to SAT, every carrier and departure
- SAT to DFW, the return direction
- American Airlines 1836 on the same route83.8%
- American Airlines 1406 on the same route57.6%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- San Antonio International (SAT) 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.