Flight profile · American Airlines
AA474
Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) to Phoenix (PHX) · scheduled 7:20 AM – 8:55 AM
How AA474 performs
605 operations, November 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on DFW → PHX, AA474 averaged about 4 operations a week (605 in 1,031 days, cancelled ones included).
AA474 arrived on time 87.5% of the time, against 71.0% for all DFW → PHX flights, so this departure is 16.5 percentage points better than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 16.4 points better.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 605 operations, November 2023 – August 2026 · If AA474 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 AA474 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 99% of 12,152 comparable flight numbers.
87.5% on time for this specific departure, against 71.1% 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 AA474 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA474 | 87.5% | 1.82% | -8 min | 5.7% | 605 |
| American Airlines on DFW → PHX | 71.1% | 1.76% | -1 min | 10.7% | 14,073 |
| All DFW → PHX flights | 71.0% | 1.72% | -1 min | 10.7% | 16,402 |
AA474 cancelled 11 of 605 operations (1.82%), close to the 1.72% for DFW → PHX.
5.7% of AA474’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 10.7% across DFW → PHX, 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 AA474 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 AA474 on DFW → PHX. 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 AA474 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
AA474 is usually the aircraft’s first flight of the day: the schedule gives it a median of 7.2 hours on the ground at DFW, so its “inbound” is mostly the aircraft’s arrival the evening before.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA474 pushed back an average of 8 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 DFW: 489 of 594 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA474 | 30% | 18% | 11% |
| Network, same turn | 29% | 12% | 9% |
A night on the ground usually absorbs a late arrival, but this flight has passed a late inbound on more often than the network does.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 6 hours or more, usually overnight. How often AA474’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA474 left 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s.
Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft ranks the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves DFW late, does that still matter by the time it reaches PHX?
AA474 pushes back an average of 9.3 minutes late and reaches the gate at PHX an average of 1.8 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. It spends 18.6 minutes on the taxiways at DFW, 1.3 minutes shorter than a typical DFW departure in the same hour.
On arrival at PHX, AA474 spends 7.9 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 about what any arrival at PHX 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 64,260 DFW departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 613,261 arrivals at PHX. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · November 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves DFW
AA474 has one departure time, 7:20 AM, so this is what that hour at DFW is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 64,260 departures from DFW are scheduled in the 7 AM–8 AM hour over the period, against 989,065 across the whole day.
AA474 is scheduled out of DFW at 7:20 AM, in the 7 AM–8 AM bank. Departures from DFW in that hour arrive on time 85.3% of the time against 73.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 12.2 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 · November 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
Other routes AA474 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA474 also served these 4 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| SJC→DFW San Jose to Dallas–Fort Worth | February 5–9, 2026 | 3 | — |
| PBI→ORD West Palm Beach to Chicago | December 19, 2025 – January 5, 2026 | 18 | — |
| DFW→PNS Dallas–Fort Worth to Pensacola | April 4, 2024 – November 2, 2024 | 201 | 55.5% |
| PHL→PHX Philadelphia to Phoenix | July 1, 2023 – November 4, 2023 | 127 | 92.1% |
The figures above describe only DFW → PHX, the route AA474 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
24 min late
against a median of 8 min early
Percentiles over 605 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering November 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA474 this flight | American Airlines | 87.5% | 8 min early | 605 |
| AA520 | American Airlines | 78.0% | 1 min early | 804 |
| AA2108 | American Airlines | 66.1% | 2 min late | 613 |
Among all 3 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA474 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 605 records of AA474 operating DFW → PHX, 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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