Flight number record
AA 2697
American Airlines · Spokane to Phoenix
- Route
- GEG → PHX
- Departs
- 06:34
- Flights
- 253
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2697, check with American Airlines.
AA 2697 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 10 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs close to two hours. That rests on 253 flights, with a median arrival 7 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, AA 2697's record is 10 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 101 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
87.4%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 253 completed flights
Avg delay
118 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
0.00%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
3.6%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 253 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 7 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 2697 flies
AA 2697 flies GEG to PHX without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 06:34, used on 61 of 253 flights, with 06:33 (36 flights) and 06:00 (30 flights) next.
- Departs 06:3461 flights24.1%
- Departs 06:3336 flights14.2%
- Departs 06:0030 flights11.9%
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 06:34 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and AA 2697 runs level with that at 87.4%. 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 2697 next to GEG to PHX
Every carrier on GEG to PHX combined arrived on time 83.3% of the time across 1,264 flights, so AA 2697 is 4 points ahead of it. American flew 591 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 83.5% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.7%, which this flight beats by 13 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2697thin sample | 253 | 87.4% | 118 min | 0.00% | A+ |
| All American Airlines on GEG–PHX | 591 | 83.5% | 121 min | 0.34% | B+ |
| All carriers on GEG–PHX | 1,264 | 83.3% | 83 min | 0.47% | B+ |
| American Airlines, whole network | 988,892 | 74.7% | 85 min | 2.14% | C |
Across the year
AA 2697 quarter by quarter
AA 2697 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Apr–Jun 2026 at 96.0% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.0%, a swing of 16 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.
- Oct–Dec 202586 flights87.2%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights80.0%
- Apr–Jun 202650 flights96.0%
- Jul–Sep 202627 flights—
Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2697 did best on Friday at 94.4% on time and worst on Sunday at 80.6%. Each day rests on about 36 flights, so a gap of 14 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Arrival by arrival
How late AA 2697 runs when it is late
AA 2697 often beats the schedule: 78 of 253 completed flights, 31%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. Most of the lateness is short. 17 of the 32 late arrivals were under half an hour behind, and 9 reached an hour or more.
- 15+ min early78 flights30.8%
- Within 15 min143 flights56.5%
- 15–29 min late17 flights6.7%
- 30–59 min late6 flights2.4%
- 1–2 hours late2 flights0.8%
- 2+ hours late7 flights2.8%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 253 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
A late pushback is often recovered here: of 33 departures that left 15 minutes late or more, 10 still arrived on time. 9 flights left on time and still arrived late.
The worst days
Worst days for AA 2697
The latest arrival of the period was on 26 April 2026, 29 hours 56 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as extreme weather. Three of the five worst days fell in January 2026.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 26 April 2026 | 29 hours 56 minutes | Extreme weather |
| 27 January 2026 | 4 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 14 March 2026 | 4 hours 4 minutes | Carrier |
| 4 January 2026 | 3 hours 28 minutes | Carrier |
| 26 January 2026 | 3 hours 23 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why AA 2697 runs late
Extreme weather accounts for 53% of the 3,774 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 53%Extreme weather
- 33%Carrier
- 9%National Airspace System
- 5%Late-arriving aircraft
Extreme weather accounts for 53% 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 8.9 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 3,774 delay minutes reported on AA 2697.
Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.89% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 3.6% 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 1,020 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 five other city pairs in the data, including DCA to SRQ (76), SRQ to DCA (76) and PNS to DFW (2), but none flew often enough under AA 2697 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to GEG to PHX only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 253 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 2697
For a booking, AA 2697 has one of the better records a US domestic flight can show: 87.4% on time and 0.00% cancelled. That is a base rate, not a promise about any single day.
Related
Where to go next
- GEG to PHX, every carrier and departure
- PHX to GEG, the return direction
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International (PHX) 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
- Worst months to fly in the US, ranked by the data
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.