Flight number record
AA 2926
American Airlines · Tucson to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- TUS → DFW
- Departs
- 11:39
- Flights
- 253
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2926, check with American Airlines.
AA 2926 sits in the middle of the pack with a C−. About seven flights in ten arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 6 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land close to two hours behind schedule. That rests on 253 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 2926 runs 6 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 63 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
71.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 237 completed flights
Avg delay
112 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.95%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
10.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 253 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.1% 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 2926 flies
AA 2926 flies TUS to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:39, used on 33 of 253 flights, with 14:41 (30 flights) and 06:02 (27 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 11:3933 flights13.0%
- Departs 14:4130 flights11.9%
- Departs 06:0227 flights10.7%
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 11:39 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 2926 runs 8 points worse at 71.3%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 2926 next to TUS to DFW
Every carrier on TUS to DFW combined arrived on time 79.8% of the time across 2,196 flights, so AA 2926 is 9 points behind it. American flew 2,123 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 79.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 3 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2926thin sample | 253 | 71.3% | 112 min | 3.95% | C− |
| All American Airlines on TUS–DFW | 2,123 | 79.7% | 110 min | 3.77% | B− |
| All carriers on TUS–DFW | 2,196 | 79.8% | 110 min | 3.78% | B− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2926 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2926 held fairly steady: 69.4% in Jul–Sep 2025, 70.7% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 74.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights69.4%
- Oct–Dec 202577 flights70.7%
- Apr–Jun 202684 flights74.0%
Scale runs 60% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2926 did best on Wednesday at 85.7% on time and worst on Saturday at 62.5%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 23 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2926 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 44% of the 7,627 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.
- 44%Late-arriving aircraft
- 38%Carrier
- 10%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
44% 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 7,627 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 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 7,627 delay minutes reported on AA 2926.
Cancellations run at 3.95%, 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 10.1% 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 813 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 eight other city pairs in the data, including DFW to TUS (177), OKC to PHX (37) and PHX to OKC (37), but none flew often enough under AA 2926 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to TUS to DFW only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 253 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 2926
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2926: 3.95% of its 253 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs close to two hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- TUS to DFW, every carrier and departure
- DFW to TUS, the return direction
- American Airlines 1014 on the same route79.7%
- 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
- Why the first flight of the morning is statistically safest
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.