Flight number record

AA 2748

American Airlines · Seattle to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: SEA → DFW
Departs: 06:00
Flights: 365
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 16 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.9 hours. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 18 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 2748's record is 16 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 161 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

93.7%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 348 completed flights

Avg delay

171 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.01%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

2.3%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 365 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 18 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 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 365 flights, with 05:24 (41 flights) and 05:10 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 06:0081 flights22.2%
Departs 05:2441 flights11.2%
Departs 05:1041 flights11.2%

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 2748 runs 4 points better at 93.7%. 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 2748 next to SEA to DFW

Every carrier on SEA to DFW combined arrived on time 77.6% of the time across 5,233 flights, so AA 2748 is 16 points ahead of it. American flew 2,738 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 77.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 19 points.

AA 2748 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2748	365	93.7%	171 min	3.01%	A−
All American Airlines on SEA–DFW	2,738	77.6%	98 min	2.81%	B
All carriers on SEA–DFW	5,233	77.6%	79 min	2.04%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	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 and 91.9% in Apr–Jun 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 202592 flights93.3%
Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.4%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights95.2%
Apr–Jun 202691 flights91.9%

Scale runs 85% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

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.

Delay causes

Why AA 2748 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 87% of the 3,767 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.

Carrier
87%
National Airspace System
8%
Late-arriving aircraft
6%

The largest share of delay minutes, 87%, 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 3,266 of the 3,767 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 3,767 delay minutes reported on AA 2748.

Cancellations run at 3.01%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in 30 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 2.3% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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 365 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. 365 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: 3.01% of its 365 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.9 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

Where to go next

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.

Key figures