Flight number record

AA 2535

American Airlines · San Diego to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: SAN → DFW
Departs: 06:15
Flights: 362
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2535, check with American Airlines.

AA 2535 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 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 9 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 2535's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 74 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

85.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights

Avg delay

115 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

1.66%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.1%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 362 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

Schedule

When AA 2535 flies

AA 2535 flies SAN to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:15, used on 207 of 362 flights, with 08:25 (82 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:15207 flights57.2%
Departs 08:2582 flights22.7%

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 06:15 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2535 runs 4 points worse at 85.0%. 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 2535 next to SAN to DFW

Every carrier on SAN to DFW combined arrived on time 77.5% of the time across 3,606 flights, so AA 2535 is 8 points ahead of it. American flew 3,212 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.2% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 11 points.

AA 2535 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2535thin sample	362	85.0%	115 min	1.66%	A
All American Airlines on SAN–DFW	3,212	77.2%	87 min	3.08%	B−
All carriers on SAN–DFW	3,606	77.5%	84 min	2.91%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2535 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 2535 held fairly steady: 87.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 83.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 82.0% 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 202591 flights87.6%
Oct–Dec 202590 flights83.3%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.0%

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

By weekday, AA 2535 ranged from 82.4% on Monday to 86.5% on Friday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 4 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.

Delay causes

Why AA 2535 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 52% of the 6,066 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
52%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
National Airspace System
10%
Extreme weather
4%

The largest share of delay minutes, 52%, 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 3,167 of the 6,066 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,066 delay minutes reported on AA 2535.

Cancellations sit at 1.66% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.55%.

Connections and routes

What a delay on this flight costs

5.1% 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 close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.

The 1,171 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 362 flights under AA 2535 in the data flew SAN 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. 362 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 2535

For a booking, read AA 2535 as 85.0% on time with 1.66% cancelled over 362 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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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