Flight number record
AA 2679
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Sarasota
- Route
- DFW → SRQ
- Departs
- 12:25
- Flights
- 277
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2679, check with American Airlines.
AA 2679 draws a D. Roughly one flight in three arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is a little over an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 277 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 2679 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 165 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.1%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 270 completed flights
Avg delay
73 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.53%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
14.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 277 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When AA 2679 flies
AA 2679 flies DFW to SRQ without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 12:25, used on 73 of 277 flights, with 13:20 (37 flights) and 13:38 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 12:2573 flights26.4%
- Departs 13:2037 flights13.4%
- Departs 13:3832 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 12:25 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 2679 runs 18 points worse at 61.1%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 2679 next to DFW to SRQ
Every carrier on DFW to SRQ combined arrived on time 62.1% of the time across 377 flights, so AA 2679 is about level with it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2679thin sample | 277 | 61.1% | 73 min | 2.53% | D |
| All American Airlines on DFW–SRQ | 367 | 62.7% | 73 min | 2.72% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–SRQ | 377 | 62.1% | 72 min | 2.65% | D |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2679 quarter by quarter
AA 2679 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 65.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 51.7%, a swing of 14 points on roughly 92 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 202592 flights51.7%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights65.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights65.5%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
Scale runs 45% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2679 did best on Monday at 74.4% on time and worst on Saturday at 51.4%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2679 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 7,615 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.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
- 0%Security
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 7,615 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 7,615 delay minutes reported on AA 2679.
Cancellations run at 2.53%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 14.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 945 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.
AA 2679 is not only a DFW to SRQ flight. It also flew SRQ to DFW (275 flights, 59.0% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 277 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SRQ to DFWthin sample | 275 | 59.0% | 100 min | 2.55% | D |
What to do with this
Booking AA 2679
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2679: 2.53% of its 277 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.