Flight number record
AA 2698
American Airlines · Dallas-Fort Worth to Albuquerque
- Route
- DFW → ABQ
- Departs
- 18:59
- Flights
- 270
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s AA 2698, check with American Airlines.
AA 2698 earns an F−, which is as low as this site's scale goes for a reason. Only 53.3% of flights arrive inside the 15-minute window, 24 points worse than the national rate of 77.6%. Late arrivals average an hour and a half. Treat any tight connection here as a coin flip. That rests on 270 flights, with a median arrival 12 minutes late.
The national on-time rate over the same period is 77.6%, so AA 2698 runs 24 points behind the country as a whole. Across a thousand flights that is about 243 extra late arrivals.
Key figures
On time
53.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 257 completed flights
Avg delay
96 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
4.81%
National rate is 1.81%
1 hour+ late
21.0%
National rate is 8.1%
These figures cover 270 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. Beyond the headline rate, 21.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule. That is the number that wrecks a connection, and it is not visible in an on-time percentage alone.
Schedule
When AA 2698 flies
AA 2698 flies DFW to ABQ without a single fixed slot. Its most common scheduled departure was 18:59, used on 60 of 270 flights, with 18:09 (44 flights) and 18:44 (36 flights) next. Carriers retime flights through the season, so the rates here blend slightly different positions in the aircraft's day.
- Departs 18:5960 flights22.2%
- Departs 18:0944 flights16.3%
- Departs 18:4436 flights13.3%
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 18:59 departure sits in the 5pm–8pm window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 68.2%, and AA 2698 runs 15 points worse at 53.3%. By that time of day most aircraft have flown several legs already, and whatever went wrong earlier is still in the schedule.
Against the route
AA 2698 next to DFW to ABQ
Every carrier on DFW to ABQ combined arrived on time 67.0% of the time across 2,290 flights, so AA 2698 is 14 points behind it. American flew 1,774 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 63.3% on time. Across its whole network American Airlines managed 74.4%, which this flight trails by 21 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA 2698thin sample | 270 | 53.3% | 96 min | 4.81% | F− |
| All American Airlines on DFW–ABQ | 1,774 | 63.3% | 71 min | 3.49% | D− |
| All carriers on DFW–ABQ | 2,290 | 67.0% | 68 min | 3.14% | C− |
| American Airlines, whole network | 986,297 | 74.4% | 85 min | 2.29% | C |
Across the year
AA 2698 quarter by quarter
AA 2698 did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jan–Mar 2026 at 72.2% on time and its weakest Apr–Jun 2026 at 42.5%, a swing of 30 points on roughly 68 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 202571 flights47.1%
- Oct–Dec 202574 flights61.6%
- Jan–Mar 202640 flights72.2%
- Apr–Jun 202685 flights42.5%
Scale runs 35% to 80%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.
By weekday, AA 2698 did best on Friday at 62.2% on time and worst on Thursday at 40.0%. Each day rests on about 39 flights, so a gap of 22 points is worth noticing but could still narrow in another year.
Delay causes
Why AA 2698 runs late
One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 55% of the 12,000 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.
- 55%Late-arriving aircraft
- 34%Carrier
- 6%Extreme weather
- 4%National Airspace System
55% 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 12,000 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 9 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 11,548 delay minutes reported on AA 2698.
Cancellations run at 4.81%, against 1.81% nationally. That is about one flight in twenty 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
For anyone connecting, the number to weigh is not the on-time rate but the tail behind it. 21.0% of arrivals land a full hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. A 45-minute layover does not survive that, and no amount of walking quickly changes it. Ninety minutes is the honest minimum here, and two hours if the onward flight is on a separate ticket.
The 569 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 four other city pairs in the data, including ORD to RSW (54), DFW to LAX (15) and LAX to DFW (15), but none flew often enough under AA 2698 to report a rate for. Carriers move flight numbers between routes, so the figures on this page apply to DFW to ABQ only.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 270 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 2698
For a booking, the cancellation rate is the figure to plan around on AA 2698: 4.81% of its 270 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.
Related
Where to go next
- DFW to ABQ, every carrier and departure
- ABQ to DFW, the return direction
- American Airlines 9 on the same route63.7%
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) 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, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.