Flight number record
AA 702
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to San Juan
- Route
- DFW → SJU
- Departs
- 16:58
- Flights
- 273
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 702, check with American Airlines.
AA 702 draws a D. Roughly one flight in two arrives at least 15 minutes late, and the typical late arrival is about an hour behind schedule. Build slack into anything you connect to. That rests on 273 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 702 runs 19 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 192 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
58.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 269 completed flights
Avg delay
65 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.47%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
14.5%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 273 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.5% 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 702 flies
AA 702 flies DFW to SJU without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 16:58, used on 53 of 273 flights, with 17:45 (41 flights) and 15:54 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 16:5853 flights19.4%
- Departs 17:4541 flights15.0%
- Departs 15:5436 flights13.2%
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 16:58 departure sits in the 2pm–5pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 72.4%, and AA 702 runs 14 points worse at 58.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 702 next to DFW to SJU
Every carrier on DFW to SJU combined arrived on time 69.5% of the time across 989 flights, so AA 702 is 11 points behind it. American flew 702 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 67.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 16 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 702thin sample | 273 | 58.4% | 65 min | 1.47% | D |
| All American Airlines on DFW–SJU | 702 | 67.7% | 62 min | 1.57% | C |
| All carriers on DFW–SJU | 989 | 69.5% | 70 min | 2.53% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 702 quarter by quarter
AA 702 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 71.4% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2025 at 30.6%, a swing of 41 points on roughly 68 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 202536 flights30.6%
- Oct–Dec 202556 flights71.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights58.6%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights61.1%
Scale runs 20% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 702 did best on Wednesday at 66.7% on time and worst on Sunday at 52.5%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 702 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 47% of the 7,221 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.
- 47%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 10%Extreme weather
- 8%National Airspace System
47% 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 7,221 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 7,221 delay minutes reported on AA 702.
Cancellations sit at 1.47% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
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. 14.5% 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.
At 2,165 miles this is transcontinental flying, and long routes get a quiet structural advantage. Scheduled block time on a flight this length carries more padding in absolute minutes, so a twenty-minute late departure often still becomes an on-time arrival. Read the on-time rate here as slightly flattering next to a short-haul route with the same operational quality.
Every one of the 273 flights under AA 702 in the data flew DFW to SJU. 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. 273 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 702
For a booking, AA 702 is a flight to put a long connection behind. 14.5% of its completed flights arrived an hour or more late, which a short layover will not absorb. If the onward flight is on a separate ticket, the risk sits with you.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to SJU, every carrier and departure
- SJU to DFW, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Luis Munoz Marin International (SJU) 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.