Flight number record
AA 2787
American Airlines · Nashville to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- BNA → DFW
- Departs
- 05:00
- Flights
- 356
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2787, check with American Airlines.
AA 2787 earns an A−. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 9 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.2 hours. That rests on 356 flights, with a median arrival 19 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2787's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 89 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 342 completed flights
Avg delay
135 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.93%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
4.7%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 356 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 19 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 2787 flies
AA 2787 flies BNA to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 05:00, used on 128 of 356 flights, with 06:00 (117 flights) and 06:36 (37 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 05:00128 flights36.0%
- Departs 06:00117 flights32.9%
- Departs 06:3637 flights10.4%
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 05:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2787 runs 3 points worse at 86.5%. 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 2787 next to BNA to DFW
Every carrier on BNA to DFW combined arrived on time 74.9% of the time across 3,527 flights, so AA 2787 is 12 points ahead of it. American flew 3,131 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 75.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2787thin sample | 356 | 86.5% | 135 min | 3.93% | A− |
| All American Airlines on BNA–DFW | 3,131 | 75.3% | 94 min | 3.39% | B− |
| All carriers on BNA–DFW | 3,527 | 74.9% | 95 min | 3.43% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2787 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2787 held fairly steady: 89.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 83.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.3% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 84.1% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202589 flights89.3%
- Oct–Dec 202587 flights83.7%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights89.3%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights84.1%
Scale runs 75% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2787 did best on Wednesday at 91.1% on time and worst on Monday at 78.4%. Each day rests on about 51 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2787 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 70% of the 6,197 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.
- 70%Carrier
- 22%National Airspace System
- 7%Extreme weather
- 1%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 70%, 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 4,336 of the 6,197 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 6,197 delay minutes reported on AA 2787.
Cancellations run at 3.93%, 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.7% 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.
The 631 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.
Every one of the 356 flights under AA 2787 in the data flew BNA 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 2787
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2787: 3.93% of its 356 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.2 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- BNA to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to BNA, the return direction
- American Airlines 2244 on the same route58.7%
- Nashville International (BNA) 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.