Flight number record
AA 2274
American Airlines · Norfolk to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- ORF → DFW
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 363
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2274, check with American Airlines.
AA 2274 lands a B−, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about 2.6 hours on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2274's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 60 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
83.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 348 completed flights
Avg delay
157 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.58%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.9%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 8 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 2274 flies
AA 2274 flies ORF to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 70 of 363 flights, with 06:00 (54 flights) and 06:48 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:0070 flights19.3%
- Departs 06:0054 flights14.9%
- Departs 06:4837 flights10.2%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2274 runs 6 points worse at 83.6%. 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 2274 next to ORF to DFW
Every carrier on ORF to DFW combined arrived on time 71.8% of the time across 998 flights, so AA 2274 is 12 points ahead of it. American flew 938 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 9 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2274thin sample | 363 | 83.6% | 157 min | 3.58% | B− |
| All American Airlines on ORF–DFW | 938 | 71.9% | 117 min | 3.20% | C− |
| All carriers on ORF–DFW | 998 | 71.8% | 114 min | 3.01% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2274 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2274 held fairly steady: 85.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 82.0% in Oct–Dec 2025, 82.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 84.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights85.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights82.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights82.1%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights84.5%
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2274 did best on Thursday at 88.5% on time and worst on Saturday at 70.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 19 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2274 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 79% of the 8,954 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.
- 79%Carrier
- 13%Late-arriving aircraft
- 6%National Airspace System
- 2%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 79%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 7,072 of the 8,954 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 8,954 delay minutes reported on AA 2274.
Cancellations run at 3.58%, against 1.81% 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 4.9% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. 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.
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: 3.58% of its 363 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.6 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.