Flight number record
AA 2729
American Airlines · Hartford to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- BDL → DFW
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 348
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2729, check with American Airlines.
AA 2729 earns an A−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 348 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2729's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 86 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 333 completed flights
Avg delay
103 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.74%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.1%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 348 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 12 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 2729 flies
AA 2729 flies BDL to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 128 of 348 flights, with 06:15 (69 flights) and 06:04 (35 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00128 flights36.8%
- Departs 06:1569 flights19.8%
- Departs 06:0435 flights10.1%
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 2729 runs 3 points worse at 85.9%. 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 2729 next to BDL to DFW
Every carrier on BDL to DFW combined arrived on time 76.4% of the time across 681 flights, so AA 2729 is 10 points ahead of it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2729thin sample | 348 | 85.9% | 103 min | 3.74% | A− |
| All American Airlines on BDL–DFW | 681 | 76.4% | 88 min | 3.23% | B− |
| All carriers on BDL–DFW | 681 | 76.4% | 88 min | 3.23% | B− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2729 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2729 held fairly steady: 86.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 82.8% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 88.5% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 6 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 202576 flights86.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.8%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights88.5%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2729 did best on Thursday at 91.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 78.7%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2729 runs when it is late
AA 2729 often beats the schedule: 153 of 333 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 47 late arrivals split 17 under half an hour, 13 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 17 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early153 flights45.9%
- Within 15 min133 flights39.9%
- 15–29 min late17 flights5.1%
- 30–59 min late13 flights3.9%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.8%
- 2+ hours late11 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 333 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
7 of 35 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 20% of them. In the other direction, 19 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at DFW.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2729
The latest arrival of the period was on 22 August 2026, 13 hours 44 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as a late-arriving aircraft. On four of the five worst days the largest share was filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage).
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2026 | 13 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 24 August 2026 | 8 hours 45 minutes | Carrier |
| 28 January 2026 | 7 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 10 July 2026 | 5 hours 46 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 February 2026 | 5 hours 42 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2729 runs late
Carrier accounts for 62% of the 4,852 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 62%Carrier
- 22%Late-arriving aircraft
- 16%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 62%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 2,995 of the 4,852 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,852 delay minutes reported on AA 2729.
Cancellations run at 3.74%, 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
5.1% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last close to two hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,471 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.
The same number turns up on one other city pair in the data, including LAX to MIA (14), but none flew often enough under AA 2729 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to BDL to DFW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 348 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 2729
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2729: 3.74% of its 348 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, 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
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.