Flight number record

AA 2904

American Airlines · San Francisco to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: SFO → DFW
Departs: 08:00
Flights: 361
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2904, check with American Airlines.

AA 2904 earns a B. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 4.9 hours. That rests on 361 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 2904's record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 69 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.5%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 349 completed flights

Avg delay

297 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.22%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

10.9%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 361 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.9% 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 2904 flies

AA 2904 is scheduled to leave San Francisco (SFO) at 08:00 local time and reach Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) at 13:38. That slot held for 302 of the 361 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.

Departs 08:00302 flights83.7%

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 08:00 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 2904 runs level with that at 84.5%. 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 2904 next to SFO to DFW

Every carrier on SFO to DFW combined arrived on time 73.5% of the time across 4,127 flights, so AA 2904 is 11 points ahead of it. American flew 3,072 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 73.4% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 10 points.

AA 2904 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2904thin sample	361	84.5%	297 min	2.22%	B
All American Airlines on SFO–DFW	3,072	73.4%	100 min	2.80%	C
All carriers on SFO–DFW	4,127	73.5%	88 min	2.37%	C
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2904 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 2904 held fairly steady: 83.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 86.2% in Oct–Dec 2025, 80.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 88.2% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 8 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights83.3%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights86.2%
Jan–Mar 202689 flights80.5%
Apr–Jun 202689 flights88.2%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2904 did best on Saturday at 92.0% on time and worst on Thursday at 75.0%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 2904 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 63% of the 16,000 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
63%
Late-arriving aircraft
33%
National Airspace System
4%
Extreme weather
0%

The largest share of delay minutes, 63%, 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 10,000 of the 16,000 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 16,024 delay minutes reported on AA 2904.

Cancellations sit at 2.22% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 1.11%.

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. 10.9% 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 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. 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 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.

What to do with this

Booking AA 2904

For a booking, read AA 2904 as 84.5% on time with 2.22% cancelled over 361 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.

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.

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