Flight number record

AA 2688

American Airlines · Raleigh to Charlotte

Route: RDU → CLT
Departs: 13:13
Flights: 279
Period: July 2025 to June 2026

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2688, check with American Airlines.

AA 2688 lands a B, 6 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in six arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by an hour and a half on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 279 flights, with a median arrival 10 minutes early.

Set against the rest of the country, AA 2688's record is 6 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 58 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

83.4%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 271 completed flights

Avg delay

85 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

2.87%

National rate is 1.81%

1 hour+ late

7.7%

National rate is 8.1%

These figures cover 279 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 10 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 2688 flies

AA 2688 flies RDU to CLT without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 13:13, used on 44 of 279 flights, with 12:24 (43 flights) and 12:44 (32 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.

Departs 13:1344 flights15.8%
Departs 12:2443 flights15.4%
Departs 12:4432 flights11.5%

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 13:13 departure sits in the 11am–2pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 78.8%, and AA 2688 runs 5 points better at 83.4%. Midday slots inherit some of the morning's delays without yet carrying the full weight of the evening's.

Against the route

AA 2688 next to RDU to CLT

Every carrier on RDU to CLT combined arrived on time 82.4% of the time across 3,070 flights, so AA 2688 is about level with it. American flew 3,051 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 74.4%, which this flight beats by 9 points.

AA 2688 against its route and carrier
Compared with	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
AA 2688thin sample	279	83.4%	85 min	2.87%	B
All American Airlines on RDU–CLT	3,051	82.3%	86 min	1.61%	B
All carriers on RDU–CLT	3,070	82.4%	86 min	1.66%	B
American Airlines, whole network	986,297	74.4%	85 min	2.29%	C

Across the year

AA 2688 quarter by quarter

Quarter by quarter AA 2688 held fairly steady: 83.7% in Jul–Sep 2025, 86.5% in Oct–Dec 2025 and 81.0% in Jan–Mar 2026. A spread of 6 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.

Jul–Sep 202592 flights83.7%
Oct–Dec 202591 flights86.5%
Jan–Mar 202690 flights81.0%
Apr–Jun 20266 flights—

Scale runs 75% to 90%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

By weekday, AA 2688 did best on Wednesday at 90.0% on time and worst on Thursday at 76.9%. Each day rests on about 40 flights, so a gap of 13 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.

Delay causes

Why AA 2688 runs late

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 64% of the 3,842 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.

Late-arriving aircraft
64%
Carrier
29%
National Airspace System
5%
Extreme weather
2%

64% 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 3,842 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 29 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 3,842 delay minutes reported on AA 2688.

Cancellations run at 2.87%, against 1.81% nationally. That is roughly 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

7.7% 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 an hour and a half, which a normal layover absorbs.

The same number turns up on five other city pairs in the data, including CLT to RDU (202), PHL to RSW (44) and RSW to PHL (44), but none flew often enough under AA 2688 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to RDU to CLT only.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 279 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 2688

For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2688: 2.87% of its 279 scheduled flights did not operate. A late arrival costs an hour and a half, but a cancellation costs the day, so leave a later option open.

Where to go next

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.

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