Flight number record
AA 2782
American Airlines · Indianapolis to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- IND → DFW
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 356
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2782, check with American Airlines.
AA 2782 earns an A−. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 13 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 356 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2782's record is 13 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 131 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
90.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 342 completed flights
Avg delay
91 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.37%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.3%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 356 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 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 2782 flies
AA 2782 flies IND to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 127 of 356 flights, with 06:01 (62 flights) and 05:49 (54 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00127 flights35.7%
- Departs 06:0162 flights17.4%
- Departs 05:4954 flights15.2%
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 2782 runs level with that at 90.4%. 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 2782 next to IND to DFW
Every carrier on IND to DFW combined arrived on time 81.2% of the time across 2,046 flights, so AA 2782 is 9 points ahead of it. American flew 1,898 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2782thin sample | 356 | 90.4% | 91 min | 3.37% | A− |
| All American Airlines on IND–DFW | 1,898 | 81.7% | 103 min | 2.53% | B |
| All carriers on IND–DFW | 2,046 | 81.2% | 99 min | 2.44% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2782 quarter by quarter
AA 2782 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2026 at 100.0% on time and its weakest Oct–Dec 2025 at 86.9%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 89 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 202529 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202585 flights86.9%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights90.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights87.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights100.0%
Scale runs 80% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2782 did best on Tuesday at 98.0% on time and worst on Monday at 84.3%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2782 runs when it is late
AA 2782 often beats the schedule: 169 of 342 completed flights, 49%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 33 late arrivals split 15 under half an hour, 10 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 8 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early169 flights49.4%
- Within 15 min140 flights40.9%
- 15–29 min late15 flights4.4%
- 30–59 min late10 flights2.9%
- 1–2 hours late4 flights1.2%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 342 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 17 of 342 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2782
The latest arrival of the period was on 4 June 2026, 16 hours 27 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on three of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 4 June 2026 | 16 hours 27 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 June 2026 | 6 hours 33 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 19 September 2025 | 4 hours 57 minutes | Carrier |
| 25 January 2026 | 4 hours 39 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 29 January 2026 | 1 hour 48 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2782 runs late
Carrier accounts for 57% of the 2,992 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 57%Carrier
- 34%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 57%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,716 of the 2,992 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 2,992 delay minutes reported on AA 2782.
Cancellations run at 3.37%, against 1.89% nationally. That is about 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 8.3% 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.
The 761 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.
Every one of the 356 flights under AA 2782 in the data flew IND 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. 356 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 2782
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2782: 3.37% of its 356 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- IND to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to IND, the return direction
- Indianapolis International (IND) delay statistics
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) 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
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.