Flight number record
AA 2904
American Airlines · San Francisco to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- SFO → DFW
- Departs
- 08:00
- Flights
- 361
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2904, check with American Airlines.
AA 2904 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 5.3 hours. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2904's record is 9 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 90 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
86.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 351 completed flights
Avg delay
317 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.22%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
9.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 361 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 9.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 2904 flies
AA 2904 flies SFO to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 08:00, used on 275 of 361 flights.
- Departs 08:00275 flights76.2%
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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 83.9%, and AA 2904 runs 2 points better at 86.3%. 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 2904 next to SFO to DFW
Every carrier on SFO to DFW combined arrived on time 73.1% of the time across 4,262 flights, so AA 2904 is 13 points ahead of it. American flew 3,094 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.0% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 12 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2904thin sample | 361 | 86.3% | 317 min | 2.22% | A |
| All American Airlines on SFO–DFW | 3,094 | 73.0% | 95 min | 2.62% | C |
| All carriers on SFO–DFW | 4,262 | 73.1% | 84 min | 2.25% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2904 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2904 held fairly steady: 90.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 86.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 80.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 88.2% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 90.3% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 10 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights90.0%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights86.2%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights80.5%
- Apr–Jun 202689 flights88.2%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights90.3%
Scale runs 70% to 95%.
By weekday, AA 2904 did best on Wednesday at 92.3% on time and worst on Thursday at 78.8%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2904 runs when it is late
AA 2904 often beats the schedule: 168 of 351 completed flights, 48%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When AA 2904 is late it tends to be very late: 33 of its 48 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 24 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early168 flights47.9%
- Within 15 min135 flights38.5%
- 15–29 min late5 flights1.4%
- 30–59 min late10 flights2.8%
- 1–2 hours late9 flights2.6%
- 2+ hours late24 flights6.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 351 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
8 of 52 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 15% of them. Only 4 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2904
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 March 2026, 27 hours 38 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 12 March 2026 | 27 hours 38 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 March 2026 | 27 hours 7 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 January 2026 | 24 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 February 2026 | 22 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
| 21 June 2026 | 14 hours 32 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 2904 runs late
Carrier accounts for 60% of the 15,000 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 60%Carrier
- 36%Late-arriving aircraft
- 3%National Airspace System
- 0%Extreme weather
36% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 15,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 36 to one. The split is drawn from 15,202 delay minutes reported on AA 2904.
Cancellations sit at 2.22% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.55%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
9.4% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 1,464 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 361 flights under AA 2904 in the data flew SFO 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. 361 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.
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For a booking, read AA 2904 as 86.3% on time with 2.22% cancelled over 361 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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Where to go next
- SFO to DFW, every carrier and departure
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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.