Flight number record

AA 2272

American Airlines · Oklahoma City to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: OKC → DFW
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 353
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2272, check with American Airlines.

AA 2272 earns a B−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.2 hours. That rests on 353 flights, with a median arrival 5 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 2272's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 65 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.1%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 339 completed flights

Avg delay

132 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.97%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.6%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 353 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 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 2272 flies

AA 2272 flies OKC to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 145 of 353 flights, with 06:03 (45 flights) and 06:08 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:00145 flights41.1%
Departs 06:0345 flights12.7%
Departs 06:0841 flights11.6%

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 06:00 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 5 points worse at 84.1%. 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 2272 next to OKC to DFW

Every carrier on OKC to DFW combined arrived on time 78.5% of the time across 3,175 flights, so AA 2272 is 6 points ahead of it. American flew 1,772 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

AA 2272 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2272thin sample	353	84.1%	132 min	3.97%	B−
All American Airlines on OKC–DFW	1,772	77.7%	98 min	3.33%	B−
All carriers on OKC–DFW	3,175	78.5%	87 min	3.28%	B−
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2272 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 2272 held fairly steady: 81.8% in Jul–Sep 2025, 81.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 86.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights81.8%
Oct–Dec 202585 flights81.2%
Jan–Mar 202685 flights87.5%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights86.0%

Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2272 did best on Thursday at 90.2% on time and worst on Saturday at 67.5%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 2272 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 57% of the 7,111 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.

Carrier
57%
National Airspace System
17%
Extreme weather
17%
Late-arriving aircraft
9%

Extreme weather accounts for 17% 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 2.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 7,111 delay minutes reported on AA 2272.

Cancellations run at 3.97%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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

5.6% 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 2.2 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: 3.97% of its 353 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.2 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

Where to go next

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.

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