Flight number record
AA 2628
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Omaha
- Route
- DFW → OMA
- Departs
- 21:30
- Flights
- 334
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2628, check with American Airlines.
AA 2628 earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 51.9% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 25 points worse than the national rate of 77.3%. Late arrivals average about an hour. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 334 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.3%, so AA 2628 runs 25 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 254 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
51.9%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 322 completed flights
Avg delay
63 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.29%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
14.9%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 334 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 14.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally.
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Schedule
When AA 2628 flies
AA 2628 flies DFW to OMA without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 21:30, used on 75 of 334 flights, with 21:03 (46 flights) and 21:41 (46 flights) next.
- Departs 21:3075 flights22.5%
- Departs 21:0346 flights13.8%
- Departs 21:4146 flights13.8%
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 21:30 departure sits in the 8pm–5am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 70.1%, and AA 2628 runs 18 points worse at 51.9%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
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Against the route
AA 2628 next to DFW to OMA
Every carrier on DFW to OMA combined arrived on time 67.5% of the time across 1,558 flights, so AA 2628 is 16 points behind it. American flew 1,346 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 64.7% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight trails by 23 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2628thin sample | 334 | 51.9% | 63 min | 3.29% | F− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–OMA | 1,346 | 64.7% | 71 min | 2.67% | D |
| All carriers on DFW–OMA | 1,558 | 67.5% | 70 min | 2.63% | C |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2628 quarter by quarter
AA 2628 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Oct–Dec 2025 at 54.8% on time and its weakest Jul–Sep 2026 at 35.7%, a swing of 19 points on roughly 84 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 202526 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202586 flights54.8%
- Jan–Mar 202689 flights52.4%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights49.4%
- Jul–Sep 202642 flights35.7%
Scale runs 25% to 60%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2628 did best on Wednesday at 71.1% on time and worst on Thursday at 30.6%. Each day rests on about 48 flights, so a gap of 40 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2628 runs when it is late
The 155 late arrivals split 58 under half an hour, 49 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 48 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early17 flights5.3%
- Within 15 min150 flights46.6%
- 15–29 min late58 flights18.0%
- 30–59 min late49 flights15.2%
- 1–2 hours late28 flights8.7%
- 2+ hours late20 flights6.2%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 322 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
21 of 153 late departures made up the time and arrived on time, 14% of them. In the other direction, 23 flights left on time yet arrived 15 minutes late or more, so that delay built up after pushback: in the air, in a holding pattern or on the ground at OMA.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2628
The latest arrival of the period was on 30 November 2025, 8 hours 52 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across November, August, September and January, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 30 November 2025 | 8 hours 52 minutes | Carrier |
| 6 August 2026 | 7 hours 53 minutes | Carrier |
| 27 August 2026 | 3 hours 49 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
| 21 September 2025 | 3 hours 39 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 26 January 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Extreme weather |
Delay causes
Why AA 2628 runs late
Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 43% of the 9,685 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 43%Late-arriving aircraft
- 35%Carrier
- 14%National Airspace System
- 9%Extreme weather
43% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. Across 9,685 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 5 to one. The split is drawn from 9,685 delay minutes reported on AA 2628.
Cancellations run at 3.29%, against 1.89% 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
14.9% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum for a connection here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 583 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.
Every one of the 334 flights under AA 2628 in the data flew DFW to OMA. 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. 334 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 2628
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2628: 3.29% of its 334 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 OMA, every carrier and departure
- OMA to DFW, the return direction
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) delay statistics
- Eppley Airfield (OMA) 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.