Flight number record
AA 2216
American Airlines · Portland to Dallas-Fort Worth
- Route
- PDX → DFW
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 336
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2216, check with American Airlines.
AA 2216 earns an A. Close to nine flights in ten arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 12 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.9 hours. That rests on 336 flights, with a median arrival 15 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2216's record is 12 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 123 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
89.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 327 completed flights
Avg delay
172 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.38%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
5.8%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 336 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 15 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When AA 2216 flies
AA 2216 flies PDX to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 62 of 336 flights, with 07:40 (47 flights) and 06:40 (46 flights) next.
- Departs 07:0062 flights18.5%
- Departs 07:4047 flights14.0%
- Departs 06:4046 flights13.7%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2216 runs level with that at 89.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
AA 2216 next to PDX to DFW
Every carrier on PDX to DFW combined arrived on time 82.5% of the time across 2,327 flights, so AA 2216 is 7 points ahead of it. American flew 1,891 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 81.8% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 15 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2216thin sample | 336 | 89.6% | 172 min | 2.38% | A |
| All American Airlines on PDX–DFW | 1,891 | 81.8% | 108 min | 2.64% | B |
| All carriers on PDX–DFW | 2,327 | 82.5% | 98 min | 2.28% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2216 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2216 held fairly steady: 93.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.5% in Jan–Mar 2026, 87.5% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 94.3% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights93.3%
- Oct–Dec 202591 flights87.8%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights90.5%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights87.5%
- Jul–Sep 202635 flights94.3%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, AA 2216 did best on Wednesday at 95.7% on time and worst on Tuesday at 78.7%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 17 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2216 runs when it is late
AA 2216 often beats the schedule: 169 of 327 completed flights, 52%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. When AA 2216 is late it tends to be very late: 19 of its 34 late arrivals were an hour or more behind, and 9 were two hours or more.
- 15+ min early169 flights51.7%
- Within 15 min124 flights37.9%
- 15–29 min late9 flights2.8%
- 30–59 min late6 flights1.8%
- 1–2 hours late10 flights3.1%
- 2+ hours late9 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 327 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
9 of 38 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 24% of them. Only 5 left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2216
The latest arrival of the period was on 3 February 2026, 23 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). On three of the five worst days the largest share was filed as a late-arriving aircraft.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 3 February 2026 | 23 hours 56 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 May 2026 | 13 hours | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 June 2026 | 8 hours 33 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 26 January 2026 | 7 hours 38 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 15 April 2026 | 6 hours 31 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 2216 runs late
Carrier accounts for 53% of the 5,860 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Carrier
- 32%Late-arriving aircraft
- 11%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
The largest share of delay minutes, 53%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 3,127 of the 5,860 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 5,860 delay minutes reported on AA 2216.
Cancellations sit at 2.38% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.30%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
5.8% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.3%, so a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.9 hours, which a normal layover absorbs.
At 1,616 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 336 flights under AA 2216 in the data flew PDX 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. 336 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.
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For a booking, read AA 2216 as 89.6% on time with 2.38% cancelled over 336 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.