Flight number record
AA 2496
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Portland
- Route
- DFW → PDX
- Departs
- 11:05
- Flights
- 276
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2496, check with American Airlines.
AA 2496 sits in the middle of the pack with a B. Close to three flights in four arrive on time by the DOT's definition, 2 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. The late ones land about an hour behind schedule. That rests on 276 flights, with a median arrival 4 minutes early.
Key figures
On time
75.8%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 269 completed flights
Avg delay
57 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.54%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
7.1%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 276 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 4 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 2496 flies
AA 2496 flies DFW to PDX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 11:05, used on 43 of 276 flights, with 11:06 (42 flights) and 10:47 (39 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 11:0543 flights15.6%
- Departs 11:0642 flights15.2%
- Departs 10:4739 flights14.1%
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 11:05 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 2496 runs 3 points worse at 75.8%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.
Against the route
AA 2496 next to DFW to PDX
Every carrier on DFW to PDX combined arrived on time 64.9% of the time across 2,410 flights, so AA 2496 is 11 points ahead of it. American flew 1,917 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 62.1% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, close to this flight's figure.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2496thin sample | 276 | 75.8% | 57 min | 2.54% | B |
| All American Airlines on DFW–PDX | 1,917 | 62.1% | 64 min | 2.97% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–PDX | 2,410 | 64.9% | 64 min | 2.61% | D |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2496 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2496 held fairly steady: 73.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 77.0% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 77.9% in Jan–Mar 2026. A spread of 5 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202592 flights73.3%
- Oct–Dec 202588 flights77.0%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights77.9%
- Apr–Jun 20266 flights—
Scale runs 65% to 85%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2496 ranged from 71.8% on Tuesday to 81.1% on Saturday. With about 39 flights behind each day, a spread of 9 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why AA 2496 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 3,691 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.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 38%Carrier
- 12%National Airspace System
- 8%Extreme weather
43% 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 3,691 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 6 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 3,691 delay minutes reported on AA 2496.
Cancellations run at 2.54%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 40 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
7.1% 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 an hour, 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.
AA 2496 is not only a DFW to PDX flight. It also flew PDX to DFW (273 flights, 71.0% on time) often enough to be scored on its own. Airlines attach one number to several legs of an aircraft's day, and each leg keeps its own record here, so check which city pair is on your booking before reading a rate.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 276 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.
| Also flown as | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDX to DFWthin sample | 273 | 71.0% | 96 min | 3.30% | C− |
What to do with this
Booking AA 2496
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2496: 2.54% of its 276 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about an hour, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to PDX, every carrier and departure
- PDX to DFW, the return direction
- Alaska Airlines 646 on the same route79.0%
- American Airlines 2655 on the same route76.0%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Portland International (PDX) 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.