Flight profile · American Airlines
AA468
New Orleans (MSY) to Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) · scheduled 5:30 AM – 7:08 AM
How AA468 performs
625 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on MSY → DFW, AA468 averaged about 4 operations a week (625 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA468 arrived on time 85.7% of the time, against 72.3% for all MSY → DFW flights, so this departure is 13.4 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 13.6 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 625 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA468 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 AA468 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 97% of 12,152 comparable flight numbers.
85.7% on time for this specific departure, against 72.1% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 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 AA468 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA468 | 85.7% | 2.72% | -8 min | 6.8% | 625 |
| American Airlines on MSY → DFW | 72.1% | 2.76% | -3 min | 11.8% | 7,470 |
| All MSY → DFW flights | 72.3% | 2.75% | -3 min | 11.5% | 9,319 |
AA468 cancelled 17 of 625 operations (2.72%), close to the 2.75% for MSY → DFW.
6.8% of AA468’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 11.5% across MSY → DFW, so the long delays are less common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
Why AA468 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
screening or terminal security incidents
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA468 on MSY → DFW. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA468 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
AA468 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 6.7 hours on the ground at MSY, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA468 pushed back an average of 13 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 2 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into MSY: 596 of 608 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 | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA468 | 39% | 13% | 8% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
A night on the ground absorbs most of a late arrival, so a late inbound matters far less here than on a same-day turn.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often AA468’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA468 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves MSY late, does that still matter by the time it reaches DFW?
AA468 pushes back an average of 12.9 minutes late and reaches the gate at DFW an average of 10.5 minutes late. The 2.4 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 15.3 minutes on the taxiways at MSY, 2.8 minutes longer than a typical MSY departure in the same hour.
On arrival at DFW, AA468 spends 14.9 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 1.3 minutes longer than a typical DFW arrival (13.6 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 8,759 MSY 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 · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves MSY
AA468 has one departure time, 5:30 AM, so this is what that hour at MSY is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 8,759 departures from MSY are scheduled in the 5 AM–6 AM hour over the period, against 157,764 across the whole day.
AA468 is scheduled out of MSY at 5:30 AM, in the 5 AM–6 AM bank. Departures from MSY in that hour arrive on time 92.5% of the time against 78.6% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 13.9 points better before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from MSY, 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 · November 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA468 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA468 also served these 8 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFW→LAS Dallas–Fort Worth to Las Vegas | April 4, 2024 – April 6, 2026 | 155 | 61.2% |
| RDU→CLT Raleigh–Durham to Charlotte | September 4, 2024 – November 4, 2024 | 62 | — |
| CLT→LAS Charlotte to Las Vegas | May 6, 2024 – November 2, 2024 | 87 | — |
| LAX→CLT Los Angeles to Charlotte | June 5, 2024 – August 5, 2024 | 62 | — |
| LAS→CLT Las Vegas to Charlotte | May 6, 2024 – June 4, 2024 | 28 | — |
| ORD→DFW Chicago to Dallas–Fort Worth | August 15, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 52 | — |
| PHX→PSP Phoenix to Palm Springs | September 6, 2023 – October 4, 2023 | 25 | — |
| CLT→TPA Charlotte to Tampa | July 1, 2023 – August 14, 2023 | 45 | — |
The figures above describe only MSY → DFW, the route AA468 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
31 min late
against a median of 8 min early
Percentiles over 625 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 625 records of AA468 operating MSY → 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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