Flight number record
AA 2244
American Airlines · Nashville to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- BNA → DFW
- Departs
- 17:27
- Flights
- 264
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2244, check with American Airlines.
AA 2244 draws a D−. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 264 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 2244 runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 189 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
58.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 247 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
6.06%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
14.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 264 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When AA 2244 flies
AA 2244 flies BNA to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 17:27, used on 55 of 264 flights, with 17:42 (42 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 17:2755 flights20.8%
- Departs 17:4242 flights15.9%
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 17:27 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and AA 2244 runs 10 points worse at 58.7%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
AA 2244 next to BNA to DFW
Every carrier on BNA to DFW combined arrived on time 74.9% of the time across 3,527 flights, so AA 2244 is 16 points behind it. American flew 3,131 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2244thin sample | 264 | 58.7% | 71 min | 6.06% | D− |
| All American Airlines on BNA–DFW | 3,131 | 75.3% | 94 min | 3.39% | B− |
| All carriers on BNA–DFW | 3,527 | 74.9% | 95 min | 3.43% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2244 quarter by quarter
AA 2244 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 67.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 50.0%, a swing of 18 points on roughly 88 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 202586 flights50.0%
- Oct–Dec 202585 flights57.3%
- Jan–Mar 202687 flights67.9%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
Scale runs 40% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2244 did best on Tuesday at 73.7% on time and worst on Monday at 44.4%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 29 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2244 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 7,224 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
- 24%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
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 7,224 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 7,224 delay minutes reported on AA 2244.
Cancellations run at 6.06%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in fifteen 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 14.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 631 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.
AA 2244 is not only a BNA to DFW flight. It also flew DFW to BNA (263 flights, 60.9% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 264 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFW to BNAthin sample | 263 | 60.9% | 74 min | 3.80% | D− |
What to do with this
Booking AA 2244
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2244: 6.06% of its 264 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- BNA to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to BNA, the return direction
- American Airlines 2787 on the same route86.5%
- Nashville International (BNA) delay statistics
- 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.