Flight profile · American Airlines
AA2761
Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) to St. Louis (STL) · scheduled 5:44 PM – 7:30 PM
How AA2761 performs
621 operations, July 2023 – August 2026.
Between its first and last recorded date on DFW → STL, AA2761 averaged about 4 operations a week (621 in 1,158 days, cancelled ones included).
AA2761 arrived on time 63.5% of the time, against 71.6% for all DFW → STL flights, so this departure is 8.1 percentage points worse than the route as a whole. Against American Airlines’ own flights on this route it is 5.3 points worse.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 621 operations, July 2023 – August 2026 · If AA2761 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 AA2761 compares to other flight numbers, not just to itself.
This flight's worst arrivals run unusually far past its typical one, a bigger gap than 96% of 12,358 comparable flight numbers.
A typical arrival is 3 min late, but the worst tenth run 109 minutes worse than that.
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 AA2761 is right now
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Against the rest of the route
| Flight or route | On time | Cancelled | Median delay | Severe | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA2761 | 63.5% | 3.38% | 3 min | 18.1% | 621 |
| American Airlines on DFW → STL | 68.8% | 2.48% | 0 min | 13.3% | 5,799 |
| All DFW → STL flights | 71.6% | 2.41% | -2 min | 11.6% | 7,376 |
AA2761 cancelled 21 of 621 operations (3.38%), above the 2.41% for DFW → STL.
18.1% of AA2761’s arrivals were an hour or more late, against 11.6% across DFW → STL, 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 AA2761 runs late
Where US DOT attributed the delay minutes on this flight.
the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late
crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control
weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically
airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control
Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for AA2761 on DFW → STL. 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 AA2761 comes in late, and what that does to the departure.
When the aircraft came in 15 or more minutes late, AA2761 pushed back an average of 58 minutes late; when it came in on time or early, an average of 9 minutes late.
Matched by tail number to the aircraft’s previous flight into DFW: 519 of 600 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA2761 | 26% | 67% | 21% |
| Network, same turn | 17% | 69% | 9% |
70 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 60 to 89 minutes. How often AA2761’s aircraft landed 15 or more minutes late is higher than the network’s and, once the aircraft was late, how often AA2761 left 15 or more minutes late is about the same as the network’s.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – August 2026
From pushback to gate
When it leaves DFW late, does that still matter by the time it reaches STL?
AA2761 pushes back an average of 34.0 minutes late and reaches the gate at STL an average of 30.3 minutes late. The 3.7 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. It spends 17.6 minutes on the taxiways at DFW, 1.1 minutes shorter than a typical DFW departure in the same hour.
On arrival at STL, AA2761 spends 7.6 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 1.7 minutes longer than a typical STL arrival (5.9 min).
Taxi-out is gate to wheels up and sits inside the scheduled block; the hourly comparison is 53,679 DFW departures. Taxi-in is landing to gate, set against 203,976 arrivals at STL. More on taxi time.
Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – August 2026
The hour it leaves DFW
AA2761 has one departure time, 5:44 PM, so this is what that hour at DFW is worth.
On-time arrival rate. 53,679 departures from DFW are scheduled in the 5 PM–6 PM hour over the period, against 989,065 across the whole day.
AA2761 is scheduled out of DFW at 5:44 PM, in the 5 PM–6 PM bank. Departures from DFW in that hour arrive on time 65.7% of the time against 73.1% across the airport’s whole day — the slot alone is worth 7.4 points worse before anything about this particular flight is considered.
Both airport figures cover every destination from DFW, 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.
Other routes AA2761 has flown
Carriers reassign flight numbers. AA2761 also served these 6 other city pairs in the period.
| Route | Operated | Flights | On time |
|---|---|---|---|
| STL→DFW St. Louis to Dallas–Fort Worth | August 6–30, 2026 | 8 | — |
| TPA→MIA Tampa to Miami | January 7, 2026 – February 11, 2026 | 36 | — |
| SFO→ORD San Francisco to Chicago | February 15, 2024 – January 5, 2026 | 196 | 82.4% |
| MCI→PHX Kansas City to Phoenix | December 4–17, 2025 | 14 | — |
| PHX→MCI Phoenix to Kansas City | December 4–17, 2025 | 14 | — |
| DCA→PHX Washington to Phoenix | November 5, 2023 – January 5, 2025 | 156 | 92.3% |
The figures above describe only DFW → STL, the route AA2761 flies now.
When it goes wrong
The average describes a usual day. This is the day that ruins a connection.
112 min late
against a median of 3 min late
AA2761 has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 3 min late, but the worst tenth are 109 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 621 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA1010 | American Airlines | 63.7% | 4 min late | 1,109 |
| AA2761 this flight | American Airlines | 63.5% | 3 min late | 621 |
Among all 2 departures on this route with at least 600 operations, AA2761 has the lowest on-time rate, 0.2 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 621 records of AA2761 operating DFW → STL, 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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