Flight number record
AA 2204
American Airlines · Richmond to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- RIC → DFW
- Departs
- 06:30
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2204, check with American Airlines.
AA 2204 lands a B, 2 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
79.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
83 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.74%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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.
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 (57 flights) and 07:01 (55 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:3091 flights24.9%
- Departs 07:0057 flights15.6%
- Departs 07:0155 flights15.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
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 9 points worse at 79.9%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
Against the route
AA 2204 next to RIC to DFW
Every carrier on RIC to DFW combined arrived on time 70.8% of the time across 1,079 flights, so AA 2204 is 9 points ahead of it. American flew 1,017 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 69.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 6 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2204 | 365 | 79.9% | 83 min | 2.74% | B |
| All American Airlines on RIC–DFW | 1,017 | 69.9% | 82 min | 2.75% | C |
| All carriers on RIC–DFW | 1,079 | 70.8% | 80 min | 2.69% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | 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 91 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 202592 flights75.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights74.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights83.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.7%
Scale runs 65% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2204 did best on Sunday at 88.0% on time and worst on Monday at 65.3%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2204 runs late
Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 5,904 reported delay minutes.
- 40%Extreme weather
- 33%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 6%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 40% 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 6.4 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 5,904 delay minutes reported on AA 2204.
Cancellations run at 2.74%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 cancelled outright. A cancelled flight is invisible in every on-time figure on this page, so the punctuality numbers above describe only the flights that actually operated.
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 8.1% 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. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
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
Booking AA 2204
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2204: 2.74% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- RIC to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to RIC, the return direction
- American Airlines 1915 on the same route66.1%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- American Airlines on-time record
- Every American Airlines flight number with a record
- The most and least reliable flight numbers in the US
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.