Flight number record
AA 2272
American Airlines · Oklahoma City to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- OKC → DFW
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 353
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2272, check with American Airlines.
AA 2272 earns an A−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 3.0 hours. That rests on 353 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2272's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 89 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 341 completed flights
Avg delay
177 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.40%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 353 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 9 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 2272 flies
AA 2272 flies OKC to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 179 of 353 flights, with 06:03 (45 flights) and 06:08 (41 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00179 flights50.7%
- Departs 06:0345 flights12.7%
- Departs 06:0841 flights11.6%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2272 runs 3 points worse at 86.2%. 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 2272 next to OKC to DFW
Every carrier on OKC to DFW combined arrived on time 79.3% of the time across 3,158 flights, so AA 2272 is 7 points ahead of it. American flew 1,733 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 78.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2272thin sample | 353 | 86.2% | 177 min | 3.40% | A− |
| All American Airlines on OKC–DFW | 1,733 | 78.2% | 112 min | 2.77% | B |
| All carriers on OKC–DFW | 3,158 | 79.3% | 96 min | 2.63% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2272 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2272 held fairly steady: 81.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 86.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 90.2% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202585 flights81.2%
- Jan–Mar 202685 flights87.5%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.2%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2272 did best on Sunday at 91.8% on time and worst on Saturday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2272 runs when it is late
AA 2272 often beats the schedule: 124 of 341 completed flights, 36%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 47 late arrivals split 18 under half an hour, 9 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 20 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early124 flights36.4%
- Within 15 min170 flights49.9%
- 15–29 min late18 flights5.3%
- 30–59 min late9 flights2.6%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.1%
- 2+ hours late13 flights3.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 341 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 33 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 1 made it up before arrival. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2272
The latest arrival of the period was on 21 February 2026, 38 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 21 February 2026 | 38 hours 6 minutes | Carrier |
| 13 August 2026 | 27 hours 19 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 June 2026 | 11 hours 15 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 7 June 2026 | 8 hours 58 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 14 May 2026 | 6 hours 37 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2272 runs late
Carrier accounts for 65% of the 8,336 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 65%Carrier
- 15%Extreme weather
- 13%National Airspace System
- 7%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 15% 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 2.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 8,336 delay minutes reported on AA 2272.
Cancellations run at 3.40%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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
5.9% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 3.0 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including PHX to MRY (1), but none flew often enough under AA 2272 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to OKC to DFW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 353 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 2272
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2272: 3.40% of its 353 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 3.0 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- OKC to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to OKC, the return direction
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.