Flight number record
AA 2740
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Fort Myers
- Route
- DFW → RSW
- Departs
- 11:50
- Flights
- 251
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 77.6%. The late ones land a little over an hour behind schedule. That rests on 251 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 241 completed flights
Avg delay
71 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.98%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
9.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 251 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
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 251 flights, with 13:15 (36 flights) and 10:07 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 11:5037 flights14.7%
- Departs 13:1536 flights14.3%
- Departs 10:0733 flights13.1%
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 11:50 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 2740 runs 3 points worse at 75.9%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 2740 next to DFW to RSW
Every carrier on DFW to RSW combined arrived on time 65.5% of the time across 1,370 flights, so AA 2740 is 10 points ahead of it. American flew 1,368 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 65.5% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 2 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2740thin sample | 251 | 75.9% | 71 min | 3.98% | B− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–RSW | 1,368 | 65.5% | 72 min | 3.00% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–RSW | 1,370 | 65.5% | 72 min | 2.99% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | 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 83.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 70.1%, a swing of 13 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 202556 flights83.0%
- Oct–Dec 202579 flights70.1%
- Jan–Mar 202666 flights80.6%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights71.4%
Scale runs 60% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2740 did best on Tuesday at 85.3% on time and worst on Friday at 64.7%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2740 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 4,106 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.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 29%Carrier
- 16%National Airspace System
- 12%Extreme weather
Extreme weather accounts for 12% 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 2.0 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 4,106 delay minutes reported on AA 2740.
Cancellations run at 3.98%, 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 9.5% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
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. 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 two other city pairs in the data, including RSW to DFW (245) and DFW to ORD (77), 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. 251 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: 3.98% of its 251 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs a little over 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.