Flight profile · American Airlines
AA1396
Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) to Nashville (BNA) · scheduled 10:30 AM – 12:33 PM
How AA1396 performs
648 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on DFW → BNA, AA1396 averaged about 4 operations a week (648 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
AA1396 arrived on time 78.0% of the time, against 67.7% for all DFW → BNA flights, so this departure is 10.3 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 11.0 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 648 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AA1396 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 AA1396 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far ahead of the carrier's own average on this route, better than 93% of 12,152 comparable flight numbers.
78.0% on time for this specific departure, against 67.0% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
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 AA1396 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1396 | 78.0% | 1.70% | -7 min | 7.4% | 648 |
| American Airlines on DFW → BNA | 67.0% | 2.74% | 1 min | 12.5% | 9,846 |
| All DFW → BNA flights | 67.7% | 2.75% | 0 min | 12.3% | 11,020 |
AA1396 has cancelled 1.70% of its scheduled departures (11 of 648), against 2.75% for all DFW → BNA 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 AA1396 specifically, not about the route it flies.
7.4% of AA1396’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 12.3% across DFW → BNA, 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 AA1396 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 AA1396 on DFW → BNA. 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 AA1396 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
The aircraft flying AA1396 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: 542 of 637 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 |
|---|---|
| AA1396 | 15% |
| Network, same turn | 17% |
77 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 AA1396’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 BNA?
AA1396 pushes back an average of 13.5 minutes late and reaches the gate at BNA an average of 6.2 minutes late. The 7.4 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. It spends 19.3 minutes on the taxiways at DFW, 2.2 minutes shorter than a typical DFW departure in the same hour.
On arrival at BNA, AA1396 spends 8.2 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 BNA 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 329,326 arrivals at BNA. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves DFW
AA1396 has one departure time, 10:30 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.
AA1396 is scheduled out of DFW at 10:30 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.
Other routes AA1396 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA1396 also served these 4 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| BNA→DFW Nashville to Dallas–Fort Worth | July 1, 2023 – August 31, 2026 | 630 | 71.1% |
| AUS→DFW Austin to Dallas–Fort Worth | May 21, 2026 – August 4, 2026 | 76 | — |
| DFW→AUS Dallas–Fort Worth to Austin | May 21, 2026 – August 4, 2026 | 76 | — |
| MIA→AUS Miami to Austin | November 5, 2023 – May 20, 2026 | 401 | 63.6% |
The figures above describe only DFW → BNA, the route AA1396 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
42 min late
against a median of 7 min early
Percentiles over 648 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1396 this flight | American Airlines | 78.0% | 7 min early | 648 |
| AA1100 | American Airlines | 71.0% | 2 min early | 984 |
| AA2244 | American Airlines | 63.5% | 3 min late | 982 |
| AA2238 | American Airlines | 62.7% | 3 min late | 754 |
| AA1500 | American Airlines | 56.2% | 9 min late | 894 |
Among all 5 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA1396 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 648 records of AA1396 operating DFW → BNA, 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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