Flight number record
AA 2642
American Airlines · West Palm Beach to Philadelphia
- Route
- PBI → PHL
- Departs
- 07:00
- Flights
- 273
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 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 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs roughly 40 minutes. That rests on 273 flights, with a median arrival 17 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2642's record is 20 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 204 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
97.7%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 263 completed flights
Avg delay
42 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
3.66%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
0.4%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 273 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 17 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 2642 flies
AA 2642 flies PBI to PHL without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 07:00, used on 156 of 273 flights, with 07:08 (28 flights) next.
- Departs 07:00156 flights57.1%
- Departs 07:0828 flights10.3%
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 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 97.7%. 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 2642 next to PBI to PHL
Every carrier on PBI to PHL combined arrived on time 78.0% of the time across 1,450 flights, so AA 2642 is 20 points ahead of it. American flew 1,177 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 82.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 23 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2642thin sample | 273 | 97.7% | 42 min | 3.66% | A− |
| All American Airlines on PBI–PHL | 1,177 | 82.3% | 116 min | 2.29% | B |
| All carriers on PBI–PHL | 1,450 | 78.0% | 113 min | 2.34% | B |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2642 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter AA 2642 held fairly steady: 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 202525 flights—
- Oct–Dec 202589 flights97.7%
- Jan–Mar 202682 flights96.1%
- Apr–Jun 202646 flights100.0%
- Jul–Sep 202631 flights—
Scale runs 90% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2642 ranged from 94.6% on Sunday to 100.0% on Tuesday. With about 39 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.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2642 runs when it is late
AA 2642 often beats the schedule: 150 of 263 completed flights, 57%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 6 late arrivals split 2 under half an hour, 3 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 1 an hour or more. Not one arrived two hours late.
- 15+ min early150 flights57.0%
- Within 15 min107 flights40.7%
- 15–29 min late2 flights0.8%
- 30–59 min late3 flights1.1%
- 1–2 hours late1 flights0.4%
- 2+ hours late0 flights0.0%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 263 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 5 of 263 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2642
The latest arrival of the period was on 25 March 2026, 1 hour 35 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The five worst days are spread across March, February, December and September, with no single month standing out.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 25 March 2026 | 1 hour 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 March 2026 | 48 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 16 February 2026 | 35 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 December 2025 | 30 minutes | National Airspace System |
| 18 September 2025 | 22 minutes | Late-arriving aircraft |
Delay causes
Why AA 2642 runs late
Carrier accounts for 52% of the 249 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 52%Carrier
- 24%National Airspace System
- 19%Extreme weather
- 5%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 19% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the quarterly figures above are the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 3.2 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 249 delay minutes reported on AA 2642.
Cancellations run at 3.66%, against 1.89% nationally. That is roughly 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 0.4% 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.
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.
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. 273 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: 3.66% of its 273 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs roughly 40 minutes, 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
- Palm Beach International (PBI) delay statistics
- 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, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.