Flight number record
AA 2740
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Fort Myers
- Route
- DFW → RSW
- Departs
- 11:50
- Flights
- 252
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2740, check with American Airlines.
AA 2740 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 252 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 244 completed flights
Avg delay
67 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.78%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
8.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 252 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 8.6% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
Fare search by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Schedule
When AA 2740 flies
AA 2740 flies DFW to RSW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:50, used on 37 of 252 flights, with 13:15 (36 flights) and 10:07 (33 flights) next.
- Departs 11:5037 flights14.7%
- Departs 13:1536 flights14.3%
- Departs 10:0733 flights13.1%
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 11:50 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.3%, and AA 2740 runs 3 points worse at 75.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Timetable by Aviasales, a Travelpayouts partner. Booking through it may earn this site a commission at no cost to you; it changes no figure here.
Against the route
AA 2740 next to DFW to RSW
Every carrier on DFW to RSW combined arrived on time 67.5% of the time across 1,332 flights, so AA 2740 is 8 points ahead of it. American flew 1,330 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 67.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2740thin sample | 252 | 75.8% | 67 min | 2.78% | B |
| All American Airlines on DFW–RSW | 1,330 | 67.4% | 71 min | 2.48% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–RSW | 1,332 | 67.5% | 71 min | 2.48% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2740 quarter by quarter
AA 2740 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 86.7% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 70.1%, a swing of 17 points on roughly 63 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 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202579 flights70.1%
- Jan–Mar 202666 flights80.6%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights71.4%
- Jul–Sep 202627 flights—
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2740 did best on Saturday at 85.3% on time and worst on Friday at 65.7%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2740 runs when it is late
The 59 late arrivals split 20 under half an hour, 18 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 21 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early50 flights20.5%
- Within 15 min135 flights55.3%
- 15–29 min late20 flights8.2%
- 30–59 min late18 flights7.4%
- 1–2 hours late13 flights5.3%
- 2+ hours late8 flights3.3%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 244 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
16 of 65 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 25% of them. 10 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2740
The latest arrival of the period was on 24 January 2026, 8 hours 6 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. The five worst days are spread across January, November, October and December, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 24 January 2026 | 8 hours 6 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 28 November 2025 | 4 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 24 October 2025 | 3 hours 38 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 28 December 2025 | 3 hours 15 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 30 December 2025 | 2 hours 48 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2740 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 3,962 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 13%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 13% 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 2.1 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,962 delay minutes reported on AA 2740.
Cancellations run at 2.78%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 40 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
8.6% 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 about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.
The 1,017 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 two other city pairs in the data, including RSW to DFW (246) and DFW to ORD (76), but none flew often enough under AA 2740 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to RSW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 252 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 2740
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2740: 2.78% of its 252 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to RSW, every carrier and departure
- RSW to DFW, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Southwest Florida International (RSW) 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.