Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1273
Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) to Reno (RNO) · scheduled 10:30 PM – 11:59 PM
How AA1273 performs
767 operations, July 2023 – July 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on DFW → RNO, AA1273 averaged about 5 operations a week (767 in 1,127 days, cancelled ones included).
AA1273 arrived on time 62.4% of the time, against 71.9% for all DFW → RNO flights, so this departure is 9.5 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 9.5 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 767 operations, July 2023 – July 2026 · If AA1273 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
Where AA1273 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1273 | 62.4% | 2.87% | 6 min | 12.4% | 767 |
| American Airlines on DFW → RNO | 71.9% | 2.13% | -2 min | 8.9% | 3,939 |
| All DFW → RNO flights | 71.9% | 2.13% | -2 min | 8.9% | 3,939 |
AA1273 cancelled 22 of 767 operations (2.87%), above the 2.13% for DFW → RNO.
12.4% of AA1273’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 8.9% across DFW → RNO, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
Why AA1273 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
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 AA1273 on DFW → RNO. 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 – July 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves DFW late, does that still matter by the time it reaches RNO?
AA1273 pushes back an average of 26.8 minutes late and reaches the gate at RNO an average of 23.0 minutes late. The 3.8 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. It spends 19.9 minutes on the taxiways at DFW, 1.5 minutes longer than a typical DFW departure in the same hour.
On arrival at RNO, AA1273 spends 5.3 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 RNO 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 39,456 DFW departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 64,684 arrivals at RNO. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026
The hour it leaves DFW
AA1273 has one departure time, 10:30 PM, so this is what that hour at DFW is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 39,456 departures from DFW are scheduled in the 10 PM–11 PM hour over the period, against 961,718 across the whole day.
AA1273 is scheduled out of DFW at 10:30 PM, in the 10 PM–11 PM bank. Departures from DFW in that hour arrive on time 65.7% of the time against 73.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.4 points worse 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 – July 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA1273 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA1273 also served these 15 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW→SLC Dallas–Fort Worth to Salt Lake City | July 3–7, 2026 | 3 | — |
| PHL→RDU Philadelphia to Raleigh–Durham | April 7, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 44 | — |
| DFW→ORD Dallas–Fort Worth to Chicago | March 10–31, 2026 | 4 | — |
| ORD→DFW Chicago to Dallas–Fort Worth | March 10–31, 2026 | 4 | — |
| IAH→ORD Houston to Chicago | February 13, 2026 – March 7, 2026 | 23 | — |
| CMH→DFW Columbus to Dallas–Fort Worth | February 12, 2026 | 1 | — |
| DFW→PNS Dallas–Fort Worth to Pensacola | January 6, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 37 | — |
| TPA→DCA Tampa to Washington | December 3–17, 2025 | 15 | — |
| MIA→ATL Miami to Atlanta | November 2, 2025 – December 2, 2025 | 30 | — |
| DFW→JAC Dallas–Fort Worth to Jackson | August 9–30, 2025 | 4 | — |
| JAC→DFW Jackson to Dallas–Fort Worth | August 9–30, 2025 | 4 | — |
| DFW→LGA Dallas–Fort Worth to New York | February 13, 2025 – August 25, 2025 | 27 | — |
| MCO→ORD Orlando to Chicago | April 4, 2025 – May 4, 2025 | 31 | — |
| RNO→DFW Reno to Dallas–Fort Worth | November 25–26, 2023 | 2 | — |
| LAS→PHX Las Vegas to Phoenix | September 6, 2023 – October 4, 2023 | 29 | — |
The figures above describe only DFW → RNO, the route AA1273 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
68 min late
against a median of 6 min late
AA1273 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 6 min late, but the worst tenth are 62 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 767 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 767 records of AA1273 operating DFW → RNO, 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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Related research: Most and Least Reliable Flight Numbers · The Delay You Inherit · Making Up Time in the Air
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