Flight number record
AA 9
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Albuquerque
- Route
- DFW → ABQ
- Departs
- 14:59
- Flights
- 352
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 9, check with American Airlines.
AA 9 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 352 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 9 runs 14 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 143 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
63.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 341 completed flights
Avg delay
74 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.12%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
14.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 352 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 9 flies
AA 9 flies DFW to ABQ without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 14:59, used on 54 of 352 flights, with 14:26 (48 flights) next.
- Departs 14:5954 flights15.3%
- Departs 14:2648 flights13.6%
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 14:59 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 71.9%, and AA 9 runs 9 points worse at 63.0%. 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 9 next to DFW to ABQ
Every carrier on DFW to ABQ combined arrived on time 69.0% of the time across 2,266 flights, so AA 9 is 6 points behind it. American flew 1,717 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 65.0% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 9thin sample | 352 | 63.0% | 74 min | 3.12% | D− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–ABQ | 1,717 | 65.0% | 70 min | 2.85% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–ABQ | 2,266 | 69.0% | 68 min | 2.52% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 9 quarter by quarter
AA 9 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 71.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 53.2%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 88 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 202523 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights57.0%
- Jan–Mar 202688 flights71.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights66.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights53.2%
Scale runs 45% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 9 did best on Thursday at 68.1% on time and worst on Monday at 54.9%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 9 runs when it is late
The 126 late arrivals split 30 under half an hour, 47 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 49 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early37 flights10.9%
- Within 15 min178 flights52.2%
- 15–29 min late30 flights8.8%
- 30–59 min late47 flights13.8%
- 1–2 hours late25 flights7.3%
- 2+ hours late24 flights7.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 341 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
31 of 146 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 11 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 9
The latest arrival of the period was on 31 July 2026, 5 hours 24 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in May 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2026 | 5 hours 24 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 23 May 2026 | 4 hours 57 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 5 March 2026 | 4 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 13 May 2026 | 3 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 May 2026 | 3 hours 48 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why AA 9 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 56% of the 9,281 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 56%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
56% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,281 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 17 to one. The split is drawn from 9,281 delay minutes reported on AA 9.
Cancellations run at 3.12%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
14.4% 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 569 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.
AA 9 is not only a DFW to ABQ flight. It also flew ABQ to DFW (319 flights, 64.3% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 352 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABQ to DFWthin sample | 319 | 64.3% | 84 min | 4.39% | D− |
What to do with this
Booking AA 9
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 9: 3.12% of its 352 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to ABQ, every carrier and departure
- ABQ to DFW, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- 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.