Flight number record
AA 2729
American Airlines · Hartford to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- BDL → DFW
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 348
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 7 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 348 flights, with a median arrival 11 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2729's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 74 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
85.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 333 completed flights
Avg delay
90 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.74%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
5.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 348 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 11 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 2729 flies
AA 2729 flies BDL to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 101 of 348 flights, with 06:15 (69 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 06:00101 flights29.0%
- Departs 06:1569 flights19.8%
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 2729 runs 4 points worse at 85.0%. 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 2729 next to BDL to DFW
Every carrier on BDL to DFW combined arrived on time 74.4% of the time across 704 flights, so AA 2729 is 11 points ahead of it. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 11 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2729thin sample | 348 | 85.0% | 90 min | 3.74% | A− |
| All American Airlines on BDL–DFW | 704 | 74.4% | 84 min | 3.55% | C− |
| All carriers on BDL–DFW | 704 | 74.4% | 84 min | 3.55% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2729 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2729 held fairly steady: 85.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 86.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 85.2% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 82.8% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202591 flights85.6%
- Oct–Dec 202576 flights86.7%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights85.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights82.8%
Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2729 did best on Friday at 91.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 76.6%. Each day rests on about 50 flights, so a gap of 15 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2729 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 75% of the 4,510 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.
- 75%Carrier
- 18%National Airspace System
- 6%Late-arriving aircraft
- 1%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 75%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 3,374 of the 4,510 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,510 delay minutes reported on AA 2729.
Cancellations run at 3.74%, against 1.81% 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
5.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last an hour and a half, 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. 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.
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 an hour and a half, 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.