Flight number record
AA 2709
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Palm Springs
- Route
- DFW → PSP
- Departs
- 18:55
- Flights
- 360
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2709, check with American Airlines.
AA 2709 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 360 flights, with a median arrival 3 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 2709 runs 15 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 154 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 344 completed flights
Avg delay
70 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.89%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
14.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 360 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 2709 flies
AA 2709 flies DFW to PSP without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:55, used on 44 of 360 flights, with 19:39 (42 flights) and 21:21 (37 flights) next.
- Departs 18:5544 flights12.2%
- Departs 19:3942 flights11.7%
- Departs 21:2137 flights10.3%
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 18:55 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.0%, and AA 2709 runs 6 points worse at 61.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AA 2709 next to DFW to PSP
Every carrier on DFW to PSP combined arrived on time 72.1% of the time across 997 flights, so AA 2709 is 10 points behind it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2709thin sample | 360 | 61.9% | 70 min | 3.89% | D− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–PSP | 997 | 72.1% | 65 min | 2.91% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–PSP | 997 | 72.1% | 65 min | 2.91% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2709 quarter by quarter
AA 2709 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 72.9% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 50.8%, a swing of 22 points on roughly 90 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 202530 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights61.9%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights72.9%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights59.3%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights50.8%
Scale runs 40% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2709 did best on Wednesday at 71.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 44.9%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 27 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2709 runs when it is late
The 131 late arrivals split 40 under half an hour, 43 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 48 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early63 flights18.3%
- Within 15 min150 flights43.6%
- 15–29 min late40 flights11.6%
- 30–59 min late43 flights12.5%
- 1–2 hours late29 flights8.4%
- 2+ hours late19 flights5.5%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 344 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
32 of 158 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2709
The latest arrival of the period was on 16 January 2026, 7 hours 25 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). Three of the five worst days fell in May 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 16 January 2026 | 7 hours 25 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 September 2025 | 6 hours 9 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 May 2026 | 4 hours 44 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 20 May 2026 | 3 hours 54 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 22 May 2026 | 3 hours 48 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 2709 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 57% of the 9,112 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 5%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
57% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,112 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 to one. The split is drawn from 9,112 delay minutes reported on AA 2709.
Cancellations run at 3.89%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
14.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,126 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 360 flights under AA 2709 in the data flew DFW to PSP. 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. 360 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 2709
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2709: 3.89% of its 360 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
- DFW to PSP, every carrier and departure
- PSP to DFW, 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
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.