Flight number record
AA 2614
American Airlines · San Francisco to Chicago
- Route
- SFO → ORD
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 364
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2614, check with American Airlines.
AA 2614 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 14 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.8 hours. That rests on 364 flights, with a median arrival 18 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2614's record is 14 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 139 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
91.2%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 354 completed flights
Avg delay
170 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
2.20%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.7%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 364 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 18 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 2614 flies
AA 2614 flies SFO to ORD without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:00, used on 241 of 364 flights, with 05:30 (43 flights) next.
- Departs 06:00241 flights66.2%
- Departs 05:3043 flights11.8%
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 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2614 runs level with that at 91.2%. 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 2614 next to SFO to ORD
Every carrier on SFO to ORD combined arrived on time 75.0% of the time across 5,650 flights, so AA 2614 is 16 points ahead of it. American flew 1,765 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 71.6% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 17 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2614thin sample | 364 | 91.2% | 170 min | 2.20% | A |
| All American Airlines on SFO–ORD | 1,765 | 71.6% | 113 min | 1.59% | C |
| All carriers on SFO–ORD | 5,650 | 75.0% | 85 min | 0.96% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2614 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2614 held fairly steady: 86.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 95.6% in Oct–Dec 2025, 89.8% in Jan–Mar 2026, 88.5% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 93.1% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 9 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights86.7%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights95.6%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights89.8%
- Apr–Jun 202690 flights88.5%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.1%
Scale runs 80% to 100%.
By weekday, AA 2614 ranged from 88.2% on Thursday to 96.0% on Friday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 8 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2614 runs when it is late
AA 2614 often beats the schedule: 209 of 354 completed flights, 59%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 31 late arrivals split 11 under half an hour, 7 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 13 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early209 flights59.0%
- Within 15 min114 flights32.2%
- 15–29 min late11 flights3.1%
- 30–59 min late7 flights2.0%
- 1–2 hours late6 flights1.7%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 354 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Time lost at the gate mostly stays lost. Of 24 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, only 2 made it up before arrival. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2614
The latest arrival of the period was on 19 February 2026, 24 hours 51 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 19 February 2026 | 24 hours 51 minutes | Carrier |
| 19 April 2026 | 14 hours 21 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 7 February 2026 | 10 hours 44 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 3 September 2025 | 7 hours 40 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 14 June 2026 | 6 hours 35 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2614 runs late
Carrier accounts for 54% of the 5,282 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 54%Carrier
- 37%Late-arriving aircraft
- 9%National Airspace System
37% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 5,282 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 37 to one. The split is drawn from 5,282 delay minutes reported on AA 2614.
Cancellations sit at 2.20% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.55%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
At 1,846 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 364 flights under AA 2614 in the data flew SFO to ORD. 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. 364 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
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For a booking, read AA 2614 as 91.2% on time with 2.20% cancelled over 364 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.