Flight number record
AA 2704
American Airlines · Raleigh to Charlotte
- Route
- RDU → CLT
- Departs
- 16:20
- Flights
- 268
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2704, check with American Airlines.
AA 2704 sits in the middle of the pack with a C. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 7 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land an hour and a half behind schedule. That rests on 268 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 2704 runs 7 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 68 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
70.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 264 completed flights
Avg delay
85 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.49%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
10.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 268 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.6% 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 2704 flies
AA 2704 flies RDU to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:20, used on 54 of 268 flights, with 15:39 (48 flights) and 16:15 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 16:2054 flights20.1%
- Departs 15:3948 flights17.9%
- Departs 16:1532 flights11.9%
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 16:20 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and AA 2704 runs level with that at 70.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 2704 next to RDU to CLT
Every carrier on RDU to CLT combined arrived on time 82.4% of the time across 3,070 flights, so AA 2704 is 12 points behind it. American flew 3,051 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 4 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2704thin sample | 268 | 70.8% | 85 min | 1.49% | C |
| All American Airlines on RDU–CLT | 3,051 | 82.3% | 86 min | 1.61% | B |
| All carriers on RDU–CLT | 3,070 | 82.4% | 86 min | 1.66% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2704 quarter by quarter
AA 2704 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 76.5% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 61.5%, a swing of 15 points on roughly 89 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 flights61.5%
- Oct–Dec 202586 flights74.4%
- Jan–Mar 202684 flights76.5%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
Scale runs 55% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2704 did best on Saturday at 80.6% on time and worst on Friday at 55.3%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 25 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2704 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 58% of the 6,555 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.
- 58%Late-arriving aircraft
- 22%Carrier
- 11%Extreme weather
- 9%National Airspace System
58% 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 6,555 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 6,555 delay minutes reported on AA 2704.
Cancellations sit at 1.49% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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. 10.6% 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.
AA 2704 is not only a RDU to CLT flight. It also flew CLT to RDU (255 flights, 68.7% 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. 268 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLT to RDUthin sample | 255 | 68.7% | 56 min | 2.35% | C |
What to do with this
Booking AA 2704
For a booking, AA 2704 is one of the weaker ways to fly RDU to CLT: 12 points below the route as a whole. If the schedule allows, compare it with the other departures listed on the route page before settling on this one.
Related
Where to go next
- RDU to CLT, every carrier and departure
- CLT to RDU, the return direction
- American Airlines 1903 on the same route95.0%
- American Airlines 2688 on the same route83.4%
- American Airlines 1894 on the same route70.7%
- American Airlines 1897 on the same route79.5%
- Raleigh-Durham International (RDU) delay statistics
- Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) 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.