Flight number record
AA 2749
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Atlanta
- Route
- DFW → ATL
- Departs
- 20:43
- Flights
- 265
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2749, check with American Airlines.
AA 2749 earns a D−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 57.3% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 20 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average about an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 265 flights, with a median arrival 8 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 2749 runs 20 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 203 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
57.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 253 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.53%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
15.4%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 265 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 15.4% 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 2749 flies
AA 2749 flies DFW to ATL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 20:43, used on 47 of 265 flights, with 21:00 (42 flights) and 21:16 (41 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 20:4347 flights17.7%
- Departs 21:0042 flights15.8%
- Departs 21:1641 flights15.5%
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 20:43 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.5%, and AA 2749 runs 13 points worse at 57.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
AA 2749 next to DFW to ATL
Every carrier on DFW to ATL combined arrived on time 75.8% of the time across 6,703 flights, so AA 2749 is 19 points behind it. American flew 2,635 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2749thin sample | 265 | 57.3% | 63 min | 4.53% | D− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–ATL | 2,635 | 71.9% | 71 min | 3.19% | C− |
| All carriers on DFW–ATL | 6,703 | 75.8% | 73 min | 2.79% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2749 quarter by quarter
AA 2749 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 62.8% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 52.2%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 66 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 202590 flights60.5%
- Oct–Dec 202546 flights52.2%
- Jan–Mar 202645 flights62.8%
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights53.8%
Scale runs 45% to 70%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2749 did best on Wednesday at 66.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 45.9%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 21 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2749 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 6,761 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.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 39%Carrier
- 7%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
47% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 6,761 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 7 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 6,761 delay minutes reported on AA 2749.
Cancellations run at 4.53%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly one flight in twenty 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. 15.4% 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 731 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 TPA to LGA (37) and PHL to PHX (1), but none flew often enough under AA 2749 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to ATL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 265 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 2749
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2749: 4.53% of its 265 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 ATL, every carrier and departure
- ATL to DFW, the return direction
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- Delta Air Lines 961 on the same route86.1%
- Delta Air Lines 32 on the same route74.8%
- Delta Air Lines 414 on the same route81.3%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.