Flight number record
AA 2336
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Cleveland
- Route
- DFW → CLE
- Departs
- 09:59
- Flights
- 268
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2336, check with American Airlines.
AA 2336 draws a D. Roughly one flight in three 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 268 flights, with a median arrival right on schedule.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 2336 runs 16 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 160 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
61.6%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 263 completed flights
Avg delay
58 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.49%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
10.6%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 268 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 10.6% 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 2336 flies
AA 2336 flies DFW to CLE without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 09:59, used on 41 of 268 flights, with 13:13 (39 flights) and 13:23 (35 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 09:5941 flights15.3%
- Departs 13:1339 flights14.6%
- Departs 13:2335 flights13.1%
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 09:59 departure sits in the 8am–11am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 84.1%, and AA 2336 runs 22 points worse at 61.6%. 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 2336 next to DFW to CLE
Every carrier on DFW to CLE combined arrived on time 66.3% of the time across 1,652 flights, so AA 2336 is 5 points behind it. American flew 1,457 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 64.0% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2336thin sample | 268 | 61.6% | 58 min | 1.49% | D |
| All American Airlines on DFW–CLE | 1,457 | 64.0% | 66 min | 2.81% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–CLE | 1,652 | 66.3% | 68 min | 2.72% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2336 quarter by quarter
AA 2336 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 67.5% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 57.0%, a swing of 11 points on roughly 89 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 202584 flights67.5%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights63.6%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights57.0%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
Scale runs 50% to 75%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2336 did best on Tuesday at 80.0% on time and worst on Sunday at 41.2%. Each day rests on about 38 flights, so a gap of 39 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2336 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 53% of the 5,807 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.
- 53%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 4%Extreme weather
53% 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 5,807 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 13 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 5,807 delay minutes reported on AA 2336.
Cancellations sit at 1.49% against a national 1.81%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.37%.
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. 10.6% 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.
The 1,021 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty. It is also long enough that the aircraft usually flies three or four legs a day rather than six, which slows how fast delay compounds.
The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including CLE to DFW (197), DCA to MCO (44) and MCO to DCA (44), but none flew often enough under AA 2336 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to CLE only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 268 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 2336
For a booking, read AA 2336 as 61.6% on time with 1.49% cancelled over 268 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to CLE, every carrier and departure
- CLE to DFW, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) 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.