Flight number record
AA 2204
American Airlines · Richmond to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- RIC → DFW
- Departs
- 06:30
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2204, check with American Airlines.
AA 2204 lands a B, 4 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. Roughly one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.2 hours on average. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2204's record is 4 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 44 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
81.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights
Avg delay
133 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.47%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When AA 2204 flies
AA 2204 flies RIC to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:30, used on 91 of 365 flights, with 07:00 (84 flights) next.
- Departs 06:3091 flights24.9%
- Departs 07:0084 flights23.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 06:30 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2204 runs 8 points worse at 81.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AA 2204 next to RIC to DFW
Every carrier on RIC to DFW combined arrived on time 74.1% of the time across 1,071 flights, so AA 2204 is 8 points ahead of it. American flew 993 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 7 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2204 | 365 | 81.7% | 133 min | 2.47% | B |
| All American Airlines on RIC–DFW | 993 | 73.4% | 98 min | 2.22% | C |
| All carriers on RIC–DFW | 1,071 | 74.1% | 95 min | 2.15% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2204 quarter by quarter
AA 2204 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 86.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 74.4%, a swing of 12 points on roughly 73 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights76.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights74.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights85.2%
Scale runs 65% to 90%.
By weekday, AA 2204 did best on Sunday at 92.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 72.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2204 runs when it is late
AA 2204 often beats the schedule: 110 of 356 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 65 late arrivals split 31 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early110 flights30.9%
- Within 15 min181 flights50.8%
- 15–29 min late31 flights8.7%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.1%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.1%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 356 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
15 of 53 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 28% of them. In the other direction, 27 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2204
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 January 2026, 29 hours 10 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 January 2026 | 29 hours 10 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 20 August 2026 | 27 hours 13 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 July 2026 | 25 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 March 2026 | 5 hours 34 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 March 2026 | 4 hours 58 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2204 runs late
Carrier accounts for 57% of the 8,612 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Carrier
- 28%Extreme weather
- 14%National Airspace System
- 2%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 28% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 4.6 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 8,612 delay minutes reported on AA 2204.
Cancellations sit at 2.47% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.5% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 1,158 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
Every one of the 365 flights under AA 2204 in the data flew RIC to DFW. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
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For a booking, read AA 2204 as 81.7% on time with 2.47% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- RIC to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to RIC, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
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A flight number here means American Airlines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.