Flight number record

AA 2216

American Airlines · Portland to Dallas-Fort Worth

Route: PDX → DFW
Departs: 07:40
Flights: 363
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 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 11 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.6 hours. That rests on 363 flights, with a median arrival 13 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 2216's record is 11 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 110 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

88.6%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 350 completed flights

Avg delay

156 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

3.31%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

5.4%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 363 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 13 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.

Schedule

When AA 2216 flies

AA 2216 flies PDX to DFW without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:40, used on 73 of 363 flights, with 07:00 (62 flights) and 06:40 (46 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 07:4073 flights20.1%
Departs 07:0062 flights17.1%
Departs 06:4046 flights12.7%

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 07:40 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 88.6%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.

Against the route

AA 2216 next to PDX to DFW

Every carrier on PDX to DFW combined arrived on time 80.7% of the time across 2,412 flights, so AA 2216 is 8 points ahead of it. American flew 1,919 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.0% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 14 points.

AA 2216 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2216thin sample	363	88.6%	156 min	3.31%	A−
All American Airlines on PDX–DFW	1,919	80.0%	105 min	3.18%	B−
All carriers on PDX–DFW	2,412	80.7%	95 min	2.69%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2216 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 2216 held fairly steady: 88.6% in Jul–Sep 2025, 87.8% in Oct–Dec 2025, 90.5% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 87.5% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 3 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights88.6%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights87.8%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights90.5%
Apr–Jun 202690 flights87.5%

Scale runs 80% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2216 did best on Wednesday at 96.0% on time and worst on Tuesday at 76.5%. Each day rests on about 52 flights, so a gap of 20 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 2216 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 51% of the 6,242 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.

Carrier
51%
Late-arriving aircraft
34%
National Airspace System
11%
Extreme weather
4%

34% 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 6,242 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 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 6,242 delay minutes reported on AA 2216.

Cancellations run at 3.31%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 30 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

5.4% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about 2.6 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 363 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. 363 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 2216

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2216: 3.31% of its 363 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.6 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

Where to go next

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.

Key figures