Flight number record
AA 2642
American Airlines · West Palm Beach to Philadelphia
- Route
- PBI → PHL
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 303
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2642, check with American Airlines.
AA 2642 earns an A−. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 20 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about 2.2 hours. That rests on 303 flights, with a median arrival 16 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2642's record is 20 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 197 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
97.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 291 completed flights
Avg delay
131 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.96%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
0.7%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 303 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 16 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 2642 flies
AA 2642 flies PBI to PHL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 184 of 303 flights, with 06:50 (33 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 07:00184 flights60.7%
- Departs 06:5033 flights10.9%
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 07:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2642 runs 8 points better at 97.3%. 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 2642 next to PBI to PHL
Every carrier on PBI to PHL combined arrived on time 77.0% of the time across 1,552 flights, so AA 2642 is 20 points ahead of it. American flew 1,268 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 80.9% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight beats by 23 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2642thin sample | 303 | 97.3% | 131 min | 3.96% | A− |
| All American Airlines on PBI–PHL | 1,268 | 80.9% | 121 min | 2.29% | B |
| All carriers on PBI–PHL | 1,552 | 77.0% | 115 min | 2.32% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2642 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2642 held fairly steady: 96.3% in Jul–Sep 2025, 97.7% in Oct–Dec 2025, 96.1% in Jan–Mar 2026 and 100.0% in Apr–Jun 2026. A spread of 4 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202586 flights96.3%
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights97.7%
- Jan–Mar 202682 flights96.1%
- Apr–Jun 202646 flights100.0%
Scale runs 90% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2642 ranged from 95.1% on Sunday to 100.0% on Tuesday. With about 43 flights behind each day, a spread of 5 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Delay causes
Why AA 2642 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Carrier accounts for 89% of the 1,049 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.
- 89%Carrier
- 6%National Airspace System
- 5%Extreme weather
- 1%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 89%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. Unlike weather, that is a management outcome, and it is the category where the gap between two carriers on the same schedule is genuinely earned. It accounts for 930 of the 1,049 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,049 delay minutes reported on AA 2642.
Cancellations run at 3.96%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in 25 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
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 0.7% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% 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.
The 951 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 two other city pairs in the data, including RDU to CLT (43) and CLT to RDU (36), but none flew often enough under AA 2642 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to PBI to PHL only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 303 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 2642
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2642: 3.96% of its 303 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs about 2.2 hours, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.
Related
Where to go next
- PBI to PHL, every carrier and departure
- PHL to PBI, the return direction
- Philadelphia International (PHL) 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
- What a cancellation rate actually tells you (and what it hides)
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.