Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1025
Tucson (TUS) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 7:00 AM – 10:26 AM
How AA1025 performs
817 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
AA1025 arrived on time 87.7% of the time, against 80.6% for all TUS → DFW flights, so this departure is 7.1 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 7.3 points better.
AA1025’s scheduled departure has moved during the period FlyerIntel has on file: it typically left around 6:15 AM earlier on, and around 7:00 AM more recently — a 45-minute shift, not the few minutes of day-to-day rounding every published schedule carries. Confirm the current departure time before booking around an older listing.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 817 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AA1025 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA1025 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1025 | 87.7% | 2.08% | -9 min | 6.1% | 817 |
| American Airlines on TUS → DFW | 80.4% | 2.68% | -6 min | 8.0% | 6,686 |
| All TUS → DFW flights | 80.6% | 2.65% | -6 min | 7.9% | 6,898 |
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why AA1025 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1025 on TUS → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA1025 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
AA1025 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 10.1 hours on the ground at TUS, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA1025 pushed back an average of 12 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 2 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into TUS just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 656 of 800 departures in all. A departure is left out when that flight is unknown, was cancelled or diverted, or the aircraft had sat for more than 12 hours. A flight the airline cancelled never left and is not in the count, and one flown by a substitute aircraft is matched to the aircraft that flew it, not to the one first planned.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA1025 | 42% | 13% | 7% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less on a turn this long than on a same-day one.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often AA1025’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA1025 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
More: Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft lists the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves TUS late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
AA1025 pushes back an average of 9.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 4.9 minutes late. The 4.6 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, which is why a late pushback on this flight does not reliably become a late arrival. It spends 13.5 minutes on the taxiways at TUS, 1.8 minutes shorter than a typical TUS departure in the same hour.
On arrival at DFW, AA1025 spends 13.2 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at DFW spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
Departure delay is averaged over every pushback and arrival delay over every completed arrival, so the two counts differ by the flights that never reached DFW. Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block rather than on top of it; the comparison is 6,465 departures from TUS scheduled in the clock hour AA1025 most often leaves in. Taxi-in is landing to gate, compared against every arrival FlyerIntel has on file at DFW (961,642 flights), not just AA1025’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves TUS
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AA1025 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 6,465 departures from TUS are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 59,292 across the whole day.
AA1025 is scheduled out of TUS at 7:00 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from TUS in that hour arrive on time 89.8% of the time against 84.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.6 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
The two airport figures cover every departure from TUS to every destination, so they describe the slot rather than this journey — the like-for-like comparison against the route is above. Hours are scheduled local, and a number whose schedule moved between banks inside the period has no single hour and is not described here at all. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA1025 has flown
A flight number is a slot in a schedule, and carriers reassign it. These are the other city pairs this number served in the analysis period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| SDF→CLT Louisville to Charlotte | April 7, 2026 | 1 | — |
| PBI→DCA West Palm Beach to Washington | March 8, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 19 | — |
| DFW→ORD Dallas–Fort Worth to Chicago | March 24, 2026 | 1 | — |
| DFW→LBB Dallas–Fort Worth to Lubbock | February 12, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 24 | — |
| PHX→ORD Phoenix to Chicago | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 37 | — |
| DFW→JAC Dallas–Fort Worth to Jackson | December 18, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 17 | — |
| JFK→CLT New York to Charlotte | December 3–17, 2025 | 15 | — |
| MIA→MSY Miami to New Orleans | November 2, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 31 | — |
| MIA→CHS Miami to Charleston | August 6, 2025 – September 2, 2025 | 28 | — |
| PDX→CLT Portland to Charlotte | September 4, 2024 – October 2, 2024 | 9 | — |
| BGR→PHL Bangor to Philadelphia | August 6, 2024 – September 3, 2024 | 29 | — |
| CLT→ORD Charlotte to Chicago | July 8, 2024 | 1 | — |
| CLT→CMH Charlotte to Columbus | July 5, 2024 | 1 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA1025 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
22 min late
against a median of 9 min early
Percentiles over 817 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2193 | American Airlines | 89.7% | 8 min early | 881 |
| AA1025 this flight | American Airlines | 87.7% | 9 min early | 817 |
| AA2720 | American Airlines | 83.1% | 8 min early | 634 |
| AA2926 | American Airlines | 72.7% | 2 min early | 880 |
| AA584 | American Airlines | 66.7% | 2 min late | 894 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA1025 is placed in the same ordering rather than left out of it; the rows around it are the most punctual departures on the route, not all of them, so this is a comparison and not a rank. Schedules change; confirm the departure still operates before booking around this.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 817 records of AA1025 operating TUS → DFW, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule. Cancelled and diverted flights are excluded from the on-time rate and reported separately. Flight numbers are resolved as carrier plus number plus route, because the same number serves different routes over time.
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