Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1061
Jacksonville (JAX) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 11:25 AM – 1:23 PM
How AA1061 performs
875 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on JAX → DFW, AA1061 averaged about 5 operations a week (875 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
AA1061 arrived on time 83.2% of the time, against 76.4% for all JAX → DFW flights, so this departure is 6.8 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 6.5 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 875 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AA1061 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How AA1061 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
Every day of the week performs about the same on this flight, steadier than 98% of 1,863 comparable flight numbers.
84.7% on time on the best day (Saturday) against 81.0% on the worst (Friday).
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.
Where AA1061 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1061 | 83.2% | 1.60% | -9 min | 7.2% | 875 |
| American Airlines on JAX → DFW | 76.7% | 2.50% | -6 min | 9.6% | 5,757 |
| All JAX → DFW flights | 76.4% | 2.49% | -5 min | 9.6% | 5,972 |
AA1061 cancelled 14 of 875 operations (1.60%), below the 2.49% for JAX → DFW.
7.2% of AA1061’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 9.6% across JAX → DFW, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
Why AA1061 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow 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 AA1061 on JAX → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA1061 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA1061 came in 15 or more minutes late on 13% of the departures where its previous flight is known. There are not enough departures in both groups to say how the flight left after a late one and after an on-time one.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into JAX: 777 of 861 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late |
|---|---|
| AA1061 | 13% |
| Network, same turn | 18% |
50 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 45 to 59 minutes. How often AA1061’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is lower than the network’s. There are not enough departures in both groups to compare how it left.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves JAX late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
AA1061 pushes back an average of 13.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 7.4 minutes late. The 6.4 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. Its 14.1 minutes on the taxiways at JAX is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at DFW, AA1061 spends 13.7 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.
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 9,259 JAX departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 988,998 arrivals at DFW. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves JAX
AA1061 has one departure time, 11:25 AM, so this is what that hour at JAX is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 9,259 departures from JAX are scheduled in the 11 AM–12 PM hour over the period, against 92,814 across the whole day.
AA1061 is scheduled out of JAX at 11:25 AM, in the 11 AM–12 PM bank. Departures from JAX in that hour arrive on time 85.6% of the time against 79.8% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 5.7 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from JAX, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
By day of week
Does AA1061 run worse on particular days?
Saturday scored highest and Friday lowest, 3.7 points apart, but with about 125 operations per scored day that is within what chance alone produces, so no day stands out.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes AA1061 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA1061 also served these 15 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW→JAX Dallas–Fort Worth to Jacksonville | July 1, 2023 – August 31, 2026 | 774 | 86.4% |
| MIA→PHX Miami to Phoenix | May 21, 2026 – August 4, 2026 | 76 | — |
| DCA→ORD Washington to Chicago | April 7, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 44 | — |
| CLT→DFW Charlotte to Dallas–Fort Worth | March 8, 2026 – April 6, 2026 | 30 | — |
| PHX→ORD Phoenix to Chicago | February 12, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 24 | — |
| ORD→CLT Chicago to Charlotte | February 11, 2026 | 1 | — |
| CLT→VPS Charlotte to Valparaiso | February 3–10, 2026 | 3 | — |
| MIA→SJC Miami to San Jose | February 9, 2026 | 1 | — |
| PHX→SFO Phoenix to San Francisco | January 8, 2026 – February 8, 2026 | 16 | — |
| DCA→BDL Washington to Hartford | January 10, 2026 – February 7, 2026 | 5 | — |
| IND→DFW Indianapolis to Dallas–Fort Worth | January 6, 2026 | 1 | — |
| PHX→PHL Phoenix to Philadelphia | December 18, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 19 | — |
| LAX→DFW Los Angeles to Dallas–Fort Worth | December 3–17, 2025 | 15 | — |
| JAX→MIA Jacksonville to Miami | November 2, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 30 | — |
| DFW→ABQ Dallas–Fort Worth to Albuquerque | July 5, 2024 | 1 | — |
The figures above describe only JAX → DFW, the route AA1061 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
39 min late
against a median of 9 min early
Percentiles over 875 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2789 | American Airlines | 87.2% | 9 min early | 827 |
| AA1061 this flight | American Airlines | 83.2% | 9 min early | 875 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA1061 has the lowest on-time rate, 4.0 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 875 records of AA1061 operating JAX → 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 reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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