Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1056
New York (LGA) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 1:59 PM – 4:50 PM
How AA1056 performs
835 operations, September 2023 – July 2026.
AA1056 arrived on time 70.0% of the time, against 74.7% for all LGA → DFW flights, so this departure is 4.7 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 4.6 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 835 operations, September 2023 – July 2026 · If AA1056 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA1056 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1056 | 70.0% | 2.16% | -7 min | 14.4% | 835 |
| American Airlines on LGA → DFW | 74.6% | 3.42% | -8 min | 10.7% | 12,059 |
| All LGA → DFW flights | 74.7% | 3.23% | -9 min | 10.9% | 20,144 |
AA1056 has cancelled 2.16% of its scheduled departures (18 of 835), against 3.23% for all LGA → DFW flights — this specific departure cancels 1.1 percentage points less often than the route as a whole. Different flight numbers on the same route can carry different aircraft, crews and schedules, so this is a fact about AA1056 specifically, not about the route it flies.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
Why AA1056 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1056 on LGA → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 2023 – July 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA1056 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA1056 pushed back an average of 54 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 6 minutes late.
Each departure is matched to the flight the same aircraft flew into LGA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 766 of 818 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA1056 | 19% | 83% | 11% |
| Network, same turn | 18% | 85% | 10% |
The schedule leaves a normal turn: enough time to clean and board if the aircraft is on time, little to spare if it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 45 to 59 minutes. How often AA1056’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA1056 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 September 2023 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves LGA late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
AA1056 pushes back an average of 26.1 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 18.0 minutes late. The 8.2 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 25.0 minutes on the taxiways at LGA, 2.1 minutes longer than a typical LGA departure in the same hour.
On arrival at DFW, AA1056 spends 15.5 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 2.0 minutes longer than a typical DFW arrival (13.5 min).
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 26,724 departures from LGA scheduled in the clock hour AA1056 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 AA1056’s own. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves LGA
Part of any flight’s record belongs to the clock rather than to the flight. AA1056 has one departure time, so this is what that time is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 26,724 departures from LGA are scheduled in the 1 PM–2 PM hour over the period, against 456,467 across the whole day.
AA1056 is scheduled out of LGA at 1:59 PM, in the 1 PM–2 PM bank. Departures from LGA in that hour arrive on time 79.4% of the time against 78.3% across the airport’s whole day, so the hour AA1056 leaves in is an ordinary one for LGA and explains nothing about its record either way.
The two airport figures cover every departure from LGA 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 · September 2023 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
By day of week
Does AA1056 run worse on particular days?
Wednesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 5.7 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · September 2023 – July 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes AA1056 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW→LGA Dallas–Fort Worth to New York | July 5, 2023 – July 31, 2026 | 644 | 80.3% |
| MCI→PHL Kansas City to Philadelphia | May 23, 2026 – June 13, 2026 | 4 | — |
| PHL→MCI Philadelphia to Kansas City | May 23, 2026 – June 13, 2026 | 4 | — |
| MIA→PDX Miami to Portland | January 2, 2026 | 1 | — |
| DFW→RIC Dallas–Fort Worth to Richmond | December 18–23, 2025 | 6 | — |
| RIC→DFW Richmond to Dallas–Fort Worth | December 18–23, 2025 | 6 | — |
| DFW→ABQ Dallas–Fort Worth to Albuquerque | May 6, 2024 – December 4, 2024 | 206 | 59.3% |
| CLT→CVG Charlotte to Cincinnati / Covington | August 15, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 48 | — |
| CVG→CLT Cincinnati / Covington to Charlotte | August 15, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 48 | — |
| DFW→SFO Dallas–Fort Worth to San Francisco | August 4–14, 2023 | 9 | — |
| SFO→DFW San Francisco to Dallas–Fort Worth | August 4–14, 2023 | 9 | — |
| DFW→LAS Dallas–Fort Worth to Las Vegas | July 2, 2023 | 1 | — |
Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA1056 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.
84 min late
against a median of 7 min early
AA1056 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 7 min early, but the worst tenth are 91 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 835 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering September 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1597 | American Airlines | 87.9% | 15 min early | 607 |
| DL873 | Delta Air Lines | 82.4% | 15 min early | 769 |
| DL869 | Delta Air Lines | 77.3% | 11 min early | 642 |
| AA1056 this flight | American Airlines | 70.0% | 7 min early | 835 |
| DL846 | Delta Air Lines | 66.5% | 2 min early | 724 |
| F93423 | Frontier Airlines | 63.2% | 1 min early | 754 |
Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA1056 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 835 records of AA1056 operating LGA → 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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