Flight number record
AA 2274
American Airlines · Norfolk to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- ORF → DFW
- Departs
- 07:03
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2274, check with American Airlines.
AA 2274 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.4 hours. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2274's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 81 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 349 completed flights
Avg delay
142 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.31%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
4.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 363 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 2274 flies
AA 2274 flies ORF to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:03, used on 77 of 363 flights, with 06:00 (54 flights) and 07:00 (45 flights) next.
- Departs 07:0377 flights21.2%
- Departs 06:0054 flights14.9%
- Departs 07:0045 flights12.4%
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 07:03 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2274 runs 4 points worse at 85.4%. 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 2274 next to ORF to DFW
Every carrier on ORF to DFW combined arrived on time 73.9% of the time across 968 flights, so AA 2274 is 12 points ahead of it. American flew 935 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 74.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2274thin sample | 363 | 85.4% | 142 min | 3.31% | A− |
| All American Airlines on ORF–DFW | 935 | 74.2% | 113 min | 2.78% | C |
| All carriers on ORF–DFW | 968 | 73.9% | 111 min | 2.69% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2274 quarter by quarter
AA 2274 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 95.2% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 82.0%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 73 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 202530 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights82.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.1%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights84.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights95.2%
Scale runs 75% to 100%.
By weekday, AA 2274 ranged from 80.0% on Saturday to 88.5% on Thursday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2274 runs when it is late
AA 2274 often beats the schedule: 136 of 349 completed flights, 39%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 51 late arrivals split 24 under half an hour, 11 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 16 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early136 flights39.0%
- Within 15 min162 flights46.4%
- 15–29 min late24 flights6.9%
- 30–59 min late11 flights3.2%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.1%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 349 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 44 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 18% of them. 15 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2274
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 March 2026, 26 hours 33 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 March 2026 | 26 hours 33 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 November 2025 | 13 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 December 2025 | 12 hours 44 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 September 2025 | 12 hours 22 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 October 2025 | 8 hours 19 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 2274 runs late
Carrier accounts for 75% of the 7,218 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 75%Carrier
- 16%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 75%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 5,398 of the 7,218 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 7,218 delay minutes reported on AA 2274.
Cancellations run at 3.31%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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 1,212 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.
Every one of the 363 flights under AA 2274 in the data flew ORF 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. 363 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 2274
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2274: 3.31% of its 363 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.4 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- ORF to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to ORF, 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.