AA1158

AA1158 arrived on time 67.6% of the time, against 78.8% for all DCA → DFW flights, so this departure is 11.2 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 11.2 points worse.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 713 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AA1158 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.

This flight runs unusually far behind the carrier's own average on this route, worse than 91% of 11,589 comparable flight numbers.

67.6% on time for this specific departure, against 78.8% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 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.

AA1158 has cancelled 5.61% of its scheduled departures (40 of 713), against 2.65% for all DCA → DFW flights — this specific departure cancels 3.0 percentage points more 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 AA1158 specifically, not about the route it flies.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1158 on DCA → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA1158 pushed back an average of 59 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 DCA just before it, using the tail number in the DOT file, 641 of 675 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.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

AA1158 pushes back an average of 29.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 20.9 minutes late. The 9.0 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 19.1 minutes on the taxiways at DCA, 1.4 minutes shorter than a typical DCA departure in the same hour.

On arrival at DFW, AA1158 spends 14.4 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 19,288 departures from DCA scheduled in the clock hour AA1158 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 AA1158’s own. More on taxi time.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026

AA1158 is scheduled out of DCA at 6:59 PM, in the 6 PM–7 PM bank. Departures from DCA in that hour arrive on time 65.7% of the time against 76.5% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 10.8 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.

The two airport figures cover every departure from DCA 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.

Because the same number has served different journeys, the statistics above describe only the route AA1158 currently operates. Blending them would produce an average of two different flights.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

Every departure listed carries at least 600 operations, so the comparison is between figures that mean something. AA1158 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.

• AA1839 DCA→DFW American Airlines on the same route, departs 6:45 AM, on time 87.6%
• AA1177 DFW→DCA Return trip, DFW to DCA, departs 8:32 AM, on time 84.6%
• AA1623 DFW→DCA Return trip, DFW to DCA, departs 7:00 AM, on time 88.3%
• AA1518 DCA→CLT American Airlines flight out of DCA, DCA to CLT, departs 8:30 AM, on time 85.7%