Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1208
Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) to Burbank (BUR) · scheduled 10:15 AM – 11:40 AM
How AA1208 performs
1,038 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on DFW → BUR, AA1208 averaged about 6 operations a week (1,038 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
AA1208 arrived on time 79.2% of the time, against 71.2% for all DFW → BUR flights, so this departure is 8.0 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 8.0 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 1,038 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AA1208 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA1208 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1208 | 79.2% | 1.06% | -6 min | 7.5% | 1,038 |
| American Airlines on DFW → BUR | 71.2% | 1.69% | -1 min | 9.2% | 2,306 |
| All DFW → BUR flights | 71.2% | 1.69% | -1 min | 9.2% | 2,306 |
AA1208 cancelled 11 of 1,038 operations (1.06%), below the 1.69% for DFW → BUR.
7.5% of AA1208’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 9.2% across DFW → BUR, 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 AA1208 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
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA1208 on DFW → BUR. 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 AA1208 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA1208 came in 15 or more minutes late on 15% 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 DFW: 789 of 1,028 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 |
|---|---|
| AA1208 | 15% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
69 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 60 to 89 minutes. How often AA1208’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as 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 DFW late, does that still matter by the time it reaches BUR?
AA1208 pushes back an average of 12.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at BUR an average of 5.4 minutes late. The 7.5 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 21.5 minutes on the taxiways at DFW is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at BUR, AA1208 spends 4.6 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 BUR 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 83,099 DFW departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 96,252 arrivals at BUR. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves DFW
AA1208 has one departure time, 10:15 AM, so this is what that hour at DFW is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 83,099 departures from DFW are scheduled in the 10 AM–11 AM hour over the period, against 989,065 across the whole day.
AA1208 is scheduled out of DFW at 10:15 AM, in the 10 AM–11 AM bank. Departures from DFW in that hour arrive on time 80.5% of the time against 73.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.4 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from DFW, 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 AA1208 run worse on particular days?
Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Saturday the least, a gap of 11.5 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes AA1208 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA1208 also served these 3 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUR→DFW Burbank to Dallas–Fort Worth | July 1, 2023 – August 31, 2026 | 1,029 | 73.4% |
| LAX→CLT Los Angeles to Charlotte | May 21, 2026 – August 4, 2026 | 75 | — |
| CLT→MIA Charlotte to Miami | April 7, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 44 | — |
The figures above describe only DFW → BUR, the route AA1208 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
38 min late
against a median of 6 min early
Percentiles over 1,038 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1208 this flight | American Airlines | 79.2% | 6 min early | 1,038 |
| AA2597 | American Airlines | 64.1% | 4 min late | 1,148 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA1208 has the highest on-time rate. 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 1,038 records of AA1208 operating DFW → BUR, 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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