Flight number record
AA 2220
American Airlines · Minneapolis to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- MSP → DFW
- Departs
- 10:47
- Flights
- 276
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2220, check with American Airlines.
AA 2220 lands a B, level with the national rate of 77.6%. Roughly one flight in four arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 276 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
77.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 272 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.45%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
7.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 276 flights between July 2025 and June 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.
Schedule
When AA 2220 flies
AA 2220 flies MSP to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 10:47, used on 101 of 276 flights, with 11:40 (35 flights) and 10:56 (31 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 10:47101 flights36.6%
- Departs 11:4035 flights12.7%
- Departs 10:5631 flights11.2%
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 10:47 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 2220 runs 7 points worse at 77.6%. 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 2220 next to MSP to DFW
Every carrier on MSP to DFW combined arrived on time 76.4% of the time across 3,261 flights, so AA 2220 is about level with it. American flew 1,618 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2220thin sample | 276 | 77.6% | 67 min | 1.45% | B |
| All American Airlines on MSP–DFW | 1,618 | 75.7% | 99 min | 3.52% | B− |
| All carriers on MSP–DFW | 3,261 | 76.4% | 83 min | 2.45% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2220 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2220 held fairly steady: 73.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.1% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 77.9% in Jan–Mar 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202591 flights73.3%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights81.1%
- Jan–Mar 202688 flights77.9%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2220 did best on Sunday at 89.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 61.1%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2220 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 4,060 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.
- 60%Late-arriving aircraft
- 28%National Airspace System
- 11%Carrier
- 1%Extreme weather
60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 4,060 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 60 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 4,060 delay minutes reported on AA 2220.
Cancellations sit at 1.45% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
7.0% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 852 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.
The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including DFW to MSP (244), JAX to CLT (41) and CLT to JAX (41), but none flew often enough under AA 2220 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to MSP to DFW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 276 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 2220
For a booking, read AA 2220 as 77.6% on time with 1.45% cancelled over 276 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- MSP to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to MSP, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 2971 on the same route73.6%
- Minneapolis-St Paul International (MSP) 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.