Flight history · Aug 2025 – Jul 2026 · US DOT on-time records
AA 1972 · Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) → Los Angeles (LAX)
Sold by American. Still flying: 52 of the last 56 days (Daily).
Arrives on time53%within 15 minutes, of 96 flights
Cancelled4.2%of scheduled flights
An hour or more late18%of flights that operated
When late, on average72 minlate, among flights 15+ min late
Schedule
Typical times in the Jun 6 – Jul 31, 2026 schedule, local at each airport (Los Angeles is 2 h behind Dallas-Fort Worth).
- Leaves DFW
- 17:30
- Arrives LAX
- 18:44
- Flight time
- 3h 14m
- Days flown, last 8 weeks
- 52 of 56
Each square is a day, Sat Jun 6 to Fri Jul 31, two weeks per row (each column is the same weekday); filled = flew.
How late it arrives
Share of flights that operated arriving more than this late.
Horizontal: minutes late at arrival (0 to 3 hours). Vertical: share of flights later than that.
Its hour at DFW
All flights leaving Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) at 5–6 pm, wherever they’re going: 65% left within 15 minutes and 3.4% were cancelled (17,396 flights in the year). Other American flights on this route →
Upcoming forecasts
Our odds that this flight is late or cancelled on the days we publish.