Flight number record

AA 2728

American Airlines · Newark to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: EWR → DFW
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 357
Period: September 2025 to August 2026

Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2728, check with American Airlines.

AA 2728 earns an A−. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 16 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.2 hours. That rests on 357 flights, with a median arrival 21 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 2728's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 159 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

93.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 337 completed flights

Avg delay

131 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.04%

National rate is 1.89%

1 hour+ late

3.0%

National rate is 8.3%

These figures cover 357 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 21 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 2728 flies

AA 2728 flies EWR to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 115 of 357 flights, with 06:03 (54 flights) and 05:45 (44 flights) next.

Departs 06:00115 flights32.2%
Departs 06:0354 flights15.1%
Departs 05:4544 flights12.3%

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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2728 runs 4 points better at 93.2%. 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 2728 next to EWR to DFW

Every carrier on EWR to DFW combined arrived on time 78.6% of the time across 3,631 flights, so AA 2728 is 15 points ahead of it. American flew 1,440 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.1% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 19 points.

AA 2728 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2728thin sample	357	93.2%	131 min	5.04%	A−
All American Airlines on EWR–DFW	1,440	80.1%	104 min	4.10%	B−
All carriers on EWR–DFW	3,631	78.6%	93 min	3.36%	B−
American Airlines, whole network	988,892	74.7%	85 min	2.14%	C

Across the year

AA 2728 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 2728 held fairly steady: 94.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 96.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 89.4% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 93.3% 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 202592 flights94.2%
Jan–Mar 202683 flights96.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.4%
Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.3%

Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2728 did best on Monday at 97.9% on time and worst on Saturday at 81.2%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Arrival by arrival

How late AA 2728 runs when it is late

AA 2728 often beats the schedule: 222 of 337 completed flights, 66%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 23 late arrivals split 9 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 10 an hour or more.

15+ min early222 flights65.9%
Within 15 min92 flights27.3%
15–29 min late9 flights2.7%
30–59 min late4 flights1.2%
1–2 hours late3 flights0.9%
2+ hours late7 flights2.1%

Scale runs 0% to 100%.

Share of 337 completed flights by arrival against schedule.

Only 14 of 337 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.

The worst days

Worst days for AA 2728

The latest arrival of the period was on 22 August 2026, 14 hours 55 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. The five worst days are spread across August, June, February and May, with no single month standing out.

The latest arrivals of AA 2728 in the period
Date	Arrived late by	Largest filed cause
22 August 2026	14 hours 55 minutes	Late-arriving aircraft
27 June 2026	6 hours 12 minutes	Carrier
24 February 2026	5 hours 48 minutes	Extreme weather
2 May 2026	5 hours 7 minutes	Carrier
27 August 2026	3 hours 30 minutes	National Airspace System

Delay causes

Why AA 2728 runs late

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 3,023 reported delay minutes.

Carrier
35%
Late-arriving aircraft
29%
National Airspace System
20%
Extreme weather
15%

Extreme weather accounts for 15% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 2.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,023 delay minutes reported on AA 2728.

Cancellations run at 5.04%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

The 1,372 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 357 flights under AA 2728 in the data flew EWR 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. 357 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 2728

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2728: 5.04% of its 357 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.2 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated 22 October 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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