Flight number record

AA 2728

American Airlines · Newark to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: EWR → DFW
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 357
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. 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 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 161 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

93.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 335 completed flights

Avg delay

93 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

5.60%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 357 flights between July 2025 and June 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.

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. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

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

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 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 93.7%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

AA 2728 next to EWR to DFW

Every carrier on EWR to DFW combined arrived on time 79.2% of the time across 3,571 flights, so AA 2728 is 15 points ahead of it. American flew 1,437 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 74.4%, 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	93.7%	93 min	5.60%	A−
All American Airlines on EWR–DFW	1,437	80.1%	92 min	4.18%	B−
All carriers on EWR–DFW	3,571	79.2%	85 min	3.36%	B−
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2728 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 2728 held fairly steady: 95.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 96.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 89.4% in Apr–Jun 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 202591 flights95.3%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.2%
Jan–Mar 202683 flights96.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights89.4%

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

By weekday, AA 2728 did best on Thursday at 100.0% on time and worst on Saturday at 83.3%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 2728 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 56% of the 1,957 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.

Carrier
56%
Extreme weather
24%
National Airspace System
20%

Extreme weather accounts for 24% 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 3.8 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 1,957 delay minutes reported on AA 2728.

Cancellations run at 5.60%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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 2.4% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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. 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.

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: 5.60% of its 357 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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