Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2704
Raleigh–Durham (RDU) to Charlotte (CLT) · scheduled 4:22 PM – 5:30 PM
How AA2704 performs
874 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on RDU → CLT, AA2704 averaged about 5 operations a week (874 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
AA2704 arrived on time 66.9% of the time, against 78.8% for all RDU → CLT flights, so this departure is 11.9 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 11.9 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 874 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2704 is cancelled or significantly changed, DOT’s automatic refund rule may entitle you to your money back. The refund checker walks through eligibility.
What stands out
How AA2704 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight runs unusually far behind the carrier's own average on this route, worse than 92% of 12,152 comparable flight numbers.
66.9% on time for this specific departure, against 78.8% for the same carrier's other flights on this route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · The one thing about this specific departure that ranks most extreme against every other published flight number, out of everything FlyerIntel checks — shown only when something clears a real statistical bar, not for every flight.
Where AA2704 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2704 | 66.9% | 1.03% | 2 min | 12.3% | 874 |
| American Airlines on RDU → CLT | 78.8% | 1.53% | -6 min | 7.5% | 10,616 |
| All RDU → CLT flights | 78.8% | 1.54% | -6 min | 7.5% | 10,650 |
AA2704 cancelled 9 of 874 operations (1.03%), below the 1.54% for RDU → CLT.
12.3% of AA2704’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 7.5% across RDU → CLT, so the long delays are more common on this number than on the route.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
Why AA2704 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2704 on RDU → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed. What the five causes mean
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Does a late aircraft delay this flight?
How often the plane that flies AA2704 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2704 pushed back an average of 68 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 3 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into RDU: 842 of 866 departures. Unknown, cancelled or diverted inbounds and gaps over 12 hours are left out.
Against the network at the same turn length
| Share of departures | Inbound landed 15+ late | Left 15+ late after a late inbound | Left 15+ late after an on-time inbound |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA2704 | 30% | 94% | 12% |
| Network, same turn | 18% | 85% | 10% |
50 scheduled minutes is enough to clean and board when the aircraft is on time, with little to spare when it is not.
The network row is every flight with a scheduled turn of 45 to 59 minutes. How often AA2704’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA2704 left 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s.
Which Flight Numbers Pay for a Late Aircraft ranks the flight numbers that pass a late aircraft on.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves RDU late, does that still matter by the time it reaches CLT?
AA2704 pushes back an average of 26.4 minutes late and reaches the gate at CLT an average of 22.2 minutes late. The 4.2 minutes between those two figures are slack the published schedule already carries, so a late pushback is partly, not fully, made up before the gate. Its 17.8 minutes on the taxiways at RDU is about what any departure from the airport in that hour spends.
On arrival at CLT, AA2704 spends 13.0 min taxiing from touchdown to the gate — ground time a connecting passenger sits through before they can even leave the aircraft, on top of however late the flight itself ran. That is about what any arrival at CLT spends on the ground before reaching the gate.
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 10,130 RDU departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 633,359 arrivals at CLT. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves RDU
AA2704 has one departure time, 4:22 PM, so this is what that hour at RDU is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 10,130 departures from RDU are scheduled in the 4 PM–5 PM hour over the period, against 184,584 across the whole day.
AA2704 is scheduled out of RDU at 4:22 PM, in the 4 PM–5 PM bank. Departures from RDU in that hour arrive on time 70.1% of the time against 79.3% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 9.3 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from RDU, so they describe the slot, not this journey; the route comparison is above. Why the hour matters.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · Hours below 120 departures are not scored.
By day of week
Does AA2704 run worse on particular days?
Saturday is historically the most reliable day and Friday the least, a gap of 16.2 percentage points.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026 · Days with fewer than 120 operations are not scored.
Other routes AA2704 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA2704 also served these 9 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLT→RDU Charlotte to Raleigh–Durham | July 1, 2023 – August 31, 2026 | 618 | 70.5% |
| DFW→SRQ Dallas–Fort Worth to Sarasota/Bradenton | May 21, 2026 – August 4, 2026 | 76 | — |
| SRQ→DFW Sarasota/Bradenton to Dallas–Fort Worth | May 21, 2026 – August 4, 2026 | 76 | — |
| CLT→RSW Charlotte to Fort Myers | April 7, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 44 | — |
| RSW→CLT Fort Myers to Charlotte | April 7, 2026 – May 20, 2026 | 44 | — |
| MIA→MCO Miami to Orlando | March 6–29, 2025 | 24 | — |
| DFW→RSW Dallas–Fort Worth to Fort Myers | February 13, 2025 – March 5, 2025 | 21 | — |
| SLC→CLT Salt Lake City to Charlotte | January 4, 2025 | 1 | — |
| BTV→PHL Burlington to Philadelphia | November 5, 2024 – December 4, 2024 | 30 | — |
The figures above describe only RDU → CLT, the route AA2704 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
75 min late
against a median of 2 min late
AA2704 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 2 min late, but the worst tenth are 73 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.
Percentiles over 874 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
Other flights on this route
Same airports, same journey, different odds of arriving on time.
| Flight | Airline | On time | Median arrival | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA580 | American Airlines | 94.5% | 21 min early | 610 |
| AA1895 | American Airlines | 88.8% | 8 min early | 902 |
| AA2688 | American Airlines | 84.3% | 6 min early | 814 |
| AA1906 | American Airlines | 79.1% | 1 min late | 922 |
| AA683 | American Airlines | 78.6% | 2 min early | 753 |
| AA1897 | American Airlines | 78.3% | 7 min early | 844 |
| AA2704 this flight | American Airlines | 66.9% | 2 min late | 874 |
| AA1904 | American Airlines | 66.1% | 0 min early | 849 |
| AA1894 | American Airlines | 63.2% | 3 min late | 996 |
Among the 9 departures listed, AA2704 has the 7th highest on-time rate, 27.6 points behind the best. Every departure here has at least 600 operations; the other rows are the most punctual on the route, not all of them.
Data and methodology
Calculated by FlyerIntel from 874 records of AA2704 operating RDU → CLT, published by the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A flight counts as delayed when it arrives 15 or more minutes after schedule; cancelled and diverted flights are reported separately, not in the on-time rate.
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