Flight number record
AA 2748
American Airlines · Seattle to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- SEA → DFW
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2748, check with American Airlines.
AA 2748 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 17 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 3.2 hours. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2748's record is 17 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 167 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
94.0%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights
Avg delay
191 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.75%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 2748 flies
AA 2748 flies SEA to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 81 of 364 flights, with 05:10 (42 flights) next.
- Departs 06:0081 flights22.3%
- Departs 05:1042 flights11.5%
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 2748 runs 5 points better at 94.0%. 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 2748 next to SEA to DFW
Every carrier on SEA to DFW combined arrived on time 78.0% of the time across 5,228 flights, so AA 2748 is 16 points ahead of it. American flew 2,736 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 76.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 19 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2748thin sample | 364 | 94.0% | 191 min | 2.75% | A |
| All American Airlines on SEA–DFW | 2,736 | 76.6% | 94 min | 2.23% | B |
| All carriers on SEA–DFW | 5,228 | 78.0% | 75 min | 1.66% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2748 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2748 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 95.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 91.9% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 95.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights95.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.9%
- Jul–Sep 202661 flights95.1%
Scale runs 85% to 100%.
By weekday, AA 2748 ranged from 88.5% on Thursday to 98.0% on Friday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 10 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2748 runs when it is late
AA 2748 often beats the schedule: 202 of 350 completed flights, 58%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 21 late arrivals split 8 under half an hour, 4 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 9 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early202 flights57.7%
- Within 15 min127 flights36.3%
- 15–29 min late8 flights2.3%
- 30–59 min late4 flights1.1%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights0.9%
- 2+ hours late6 flights1.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 350 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 21 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 8 still arrived on time. 8 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2748
The latest arrival of the period was on 28 June 2026, 28 hours 51 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on four of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2026 | 28 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 29 January 2026 | 12 hours 15 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 August 2026 | 5 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 April 2026 | 4 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 23 December 2025 | 3 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 2748 runs late
Carrier accounts for 87% of the 4,003 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 87%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 5%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 87%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,502 of the 4,003 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 4,003 delay minutes reported on AA 2748.
Cancellations run at 2.75%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.6% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% 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.
At 1,660 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
Every one of the 364 flights under AA 2748 in the data flew SEA 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. 364 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 2748
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2748: 2.75% of its 364 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 3.2 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- SEA to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to SEA, the return direction
- Delta Air Lines 870 on the same route74.0%
- American Airlines 767 on the same route67.6%
- American Airlines 1667 on the same route88.4%
- American Airlines 707 on the same route76.8%
- Alaska Airlines 414 on the same route90.9%
- Alaska Airlines 424 on the same route78.9%
- Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA) delay statistics
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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.