Flight number record
AA 2535
American Airlines · San Diego to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- SAN → DFW
- Departs
- 06:15
- Flights
- 362
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 8 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 362 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2535's record is 8 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 78 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 356 completed flights
Avg delay
125 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.38%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 362 flights between September 2025 and August 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.
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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 146 of 362 flights, with 08:25 (82 flights) next.
- Departs 06:15146 flights40.3%
- Departs 08:2582 flights22.7%
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 06:15 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 85.1%. 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 2535 next to SAN to DFW
Every carrier on SAN to DFW combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 3,737 flights, so AA 2535 is 8 points ahead of it. American flew 3,211 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 10 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2535thin sample | 362 | 85.1% | 125 min | 1.38% | A |
| All American Airlines on SAN–DFW | 3,211 | 77.4% | 84 min | 2.46% | B |
| All carriers on SAN–DFW | 3,737 | 77.6% | 81 min | 2.30% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2535 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2535 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Oct–Dec 2025, 87.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 82.0% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.7% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202590 flights83.3%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights87.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.0%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.7%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2535 ranged from 82.7% on Friday to 88.2% on Wednesday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2535 runs when it is late
AA 2535 often beats the schedule: 116 of 356 completed flights, 33%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 53 late arrivals split 16 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 19 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early116 flights32.6%
- Within 15 min187 flights52.5%
- 15–29 min late16 flights4.5%
- 30–59 min late18 flights5.1%
- 1–2 hours late7 flights2.0%
- 2+ hours late12 flights3.4%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 356 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
10 of 47 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 21% of them. 16 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2535
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 March 2026, 10 hours 47 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. Three of the five worst days fell in March 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 March 2026 | 10 hours 47 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 March 2026 | 10 hours 9 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 29 March 2026 | 10 hours 6 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 11 August 2026 | 8 hours 21 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 April 2026 | 8 hours 10 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2535 runs late
Carrier accounts for 57% of the 6,613 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Carrier
- 31%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
- 3%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,763 of the 6,613 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,613 delay minutes reported on AA 2535.
Cancellations sit at 1.38% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.28%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.3% 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 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.
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, AA 2535 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 85.1% on time and 1.38% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- SAN to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to SAN, the return direction
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- Frontier Airlines 1426 on the same route79.1%
- San Diego International (SAN) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
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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.